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Published in: HomeThe ‘oil fairytale’ versus Norway's Constitution
Large-scale oil extraction in the Arctic is irreconcilable with a two-degree global warming limit. When politics let...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Weaning Norway off the oil
An alliance between unions, environmental organisations, religious institutions and researchers is a strange mix....
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Published in: 50.50Believing women's narratives in Sweden and Norway
Too often women's oppression is sidelined as a lesser cause, and women's experiences dismissed, as two cases in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Will Norway allow Snowden safe passage to receive prize?
The Norwegians must not let their relationship with the US stand in the way of this chance to defend the fundamental...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit: a Norwegian view
"British leadership is needed to help Europe become stronger, more free and more prosperous". Norway's minister of...
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Published in: HomeSubsidising climate change
We need to raise awareness about how the rich oil nations keep subsidising oil extraction whilst agreeing that the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?I am not Charlie
The Danish cartoons were assembled to humiliate a vulnerable minority. In subsequent debates, the idea of freedom of...
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Published in: HomeIn search of the spider in Anders Behring Breivik's web
For months we searched for the Norwegian terrorist’s most prominent supporter. Our hunt ended in a suburb in South...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Toxic waste: the death of the fjords?
The Nordic mining industry is planning to fill up Norway’s famous fjords with toxic waste. Fast earnings and cheap...
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Published in: HomeThoughts on autonomous weapons systems and meaningful human control of cyber
In cyber, borders, states, agencies – the traditional ways of organising international cooperation and communication...
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Published in: HomeFossil addiction: is there a road to recovery?
There is no shortage of knowledge about global environmental and climate problems. Nor was there 40 years ago. So...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Norway's shame: educational discrimination against Iranian students
Iranian students are being systematically discriminated against by the Norwegian government. This is a closed minded...
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Published in: HomeThe new wave of counter-terrorism
The FREE Initiative aims to prevent and counter far-right extremism across Europe by creating a platform for...
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Published in: HomeIn praise of family existentialism
Two enraged, thrilling epics of the everyday make the reader the equivalent of the algorithm, seeking patterns...
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Published in: HomeNet names for safe shelter
A proposal for making the net safer by combining Norwegian legislation with a new use for its unused digital domains.
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Published in: HomeEthics committee to universities: oil research can be unethical
The Norwegian committee on research ethics tells institutions that oil research, often sponsored by the industry, is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Social democracy in Norway’s culture wars
An exploration of the various elements of Norwegian culture that have over time fostered a deep-rooted...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The same creed: a conversation about Scandinavian democracy with Bo Lidegaard
"In my eyes, there is nothing in the Scandinavia model that suggests that we cannot compete. Actually, there is a...
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Published in: HomeThe Norwegian shift to the right: 10 short lessons on The Progress Party
Norway seems to have taken a sharp turn to the right, and some have warned of right-wing extremism in a bastion of...
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Published in: HomeHow to deflate the carbon bubble
The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union...