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Back to homepageNorway: Multimillionaire and real estate businessman Bjørn Hanevik was ordered to remove illegal docks and a garage from his property in idyllic Bergen’s Ă…sane
NordenBladet – Influential Norwegian investor and businessman Bjørn Hanevik, who works in real estate, hotels, restaurants and finance through his 100% owned company Bergen Harbor group, is at loggerheads with the municipality of Bergen. Bergen municipality’s planning and construction agency
Read MoreNorway: Many banks are experiencing an increase in applications for deferred loan payments
NordenBladet – Many banks in Norway, including Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge, DNB, and Nordea, are experiencing an increase in applications for deferred loan payments, also known as “avdragsfrihet.” This surge in requests is due to concerns about rising loan costs caused
Read MoreNorway: Norgesgruppen earned NOK 1.6 billion before tax in the first half of the year
NordenBladet – The Norgesgruppen grocery chain earned NOK 1.6 billion before tax in the first half of 2023. Norgesgruppen owns, among other things, the Kiwi and Meny chains. The group had operating income of NOK 54.3 billion in the first
Read MoreNorway: Oslo on course to become first capital city with zero-emissions public transport network
NordenBladet — Norway’s capital Oslo is set to become the first capital in the world to provide an all-electric public transport system, creating zero emissions. By the end of 2023, Oslo aims to become the world’s first wholly emissions-free city.
Read MoreNorwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD): “Substantial” amount of minerals found out Norway’s seabed
NordenBladet — A “substantial” amount of minerals and metals have been found on the seabed of Norway’s extended continental shelf, ranging from rare earth metals to copper. Speaking in a statement, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) explained “Of the metals
Read MoreArchaeologists in Norway finds 2,000-year-old runestone
NordenBladet — A 2,000-year-old runestone has been found in Norway by Archaeologists, which date back to the earliest days of using runic writing. The stone has been labelled as the world’s oldest runestone. The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo
Read MoreNorway: Construction crane collapses onto shopping mall in Melhus Â
NordenBladet — Norwegian Police have announced that a construction crane that collapsed onto a shopping Mall in Melhus has caused at least one fatality and injured several others. The accident happened due to high winds toppling over the unmanned crane
Read MoreNorway sees a drop in job vacancies causing rise in unemployment
NordenBladet — Latest figures from Statistics Norway have revealed that unemployment in Norway has increased since spring this year, with the number of open job vacancies falling. Unemployment in the country has increased from 3.1 percent to 3.3 percent since
Read MoreNorway: Norwegians now shop at the border as before the pandemic
NordenBladet – Norwegians traded cross-border for NOK 3.6 billion in the 2nd quarter. This means that cross-border trade is back at the same level as before the pandemic. New figures from Statistics Norway (SSB) show that Norwegians shopped for NOK
Read MoreNorway: 175 new asylum applications from Ukrainian citizens
NordenBladet – 175 new asylum seekers from Ukraine to Norway were registered on Thursday. A total of 829 new asylum seekers were registered in the last week. On Wednesday and Tuesday, 141 and 116 new applications for asylum from Ukrainian
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