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Cartoon affair boosts Progress Party
A survey in the Bergens Tidende newspaper published in March showed support for the Progress Party rising to 31.8 per cent (Labour having 28.7 per cent) - with the increase credited to the cartoon row.
7 March 2006 (106 words)
Integration directorate formed
The government has announced the setting up of a new integration directorate to improve conditions for a growing number of immigrants.
25 December 2004 (93 words)
New anti- discrimination enforcement system
A new law to ban discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity or religion and a new enforcement system are to be created.
20 December 2004 (51 words)
Progress Party advances after budget deal
The extreme conservative Progress Party was shown in a recent opinion poll to have gained 2.7 per cent to 20.3 per cent, keeping them the second most popular party after it demanded budget changes of the ruling coalition government.
14 December 2004 (73 words)
Prime minister questioned over Christian fundamentalist links
Opposition parties from the Labor to the Progress Party are demanding that prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik explain his ties to the secretive Fellowship Foundation - a Christian 'brotherhood' which meets in Washington.
9 December 2004 (62 words)
Compulsory Norwegian course for imams in wake of van Gogh killing
Norway's Labor Party has proposed mandatory courses in Norwegian language and culture for those who intend to preach religion after Islamic Council Norway's spokesman Zahid Mukhtar refused a clear repudiation of the murder of Theo van Gogh.
4 December 2004 (180 words)
Immigrants should be forced to learn Norwegian
A leading professor and psychiatrist, Berthold Grunfeldt, has told NRK radio that the country has incurred problems it cannot handle because it has been too soft-hearted on immigrants.
1 December 2004 (140 words)
Minister wants Christian values
Minister of social and labour affairs, Dagfinn Hoybraten has spoken out against a new day care law as 'a formidable attack on our Christian cultural heritage'.
28 November 2004 (125 words)
Kurd rescued from arson attempt
A Kurdish man just avoided death when fire-fighters rescued the bound and gagged man from his burning shop in Tonsberg.
25 November 2004 (56 words)
Progress Party calls for more surveillance of Muslims
The leader of the Progress Party, Hagen, has criticised the parliamentary white paper on security for not going far enough and proposes the infiltration and surveillance of groups that invite fundamentalists and/or those which express views 'that frighten the Norwegian people'.
20 November 2004 (89 words)
Web-site closed after complaint about President Bush joke
Following a complaint by the US embassy in Oslo, police have shut down an anti-Bush satirical web-site belonging to the Gatas Parlament rap trio which urged people to raise money to finance the assassination of Bush.
6 November 2004 (69 words)
Hagen calls for unity on the right
The leader of Norway's most conservative party, which holds the second-largest bloc of voter support after Labor, has called for all those on the right to come together.
6 October 2004 (118 words)
One third of dangerous mental patients are refugees
According to figures obtained by the public broadcaster NRK, 30 per cent of dangerous patients at regional mental hospitals at Dikemark in Akersus and Sandviken in Bergen came to Norway as refugees.
3 October 2004 (78 words)
Racist email angers bus drivers
One third of all bus drivers at Norgesbuss are of 'immigrant background' and they were not amused by an email which managers sent out which was a 'math test for Pakistanis' with problems about 'Jamal' and 'Abdullah' and others who sell drugs, pimp, shoot and murder.
30 September 2004 (93 words)
Scandinavia's biggest mosque to be built
Building work has begun in the Gronland district of Oslo, on Scandinavia's largest mosque, which, will have room for 2,500 people when it is completed next autumn.
30 September 2004 (37 words)
Changes on citizenship, marriage and asylum policy
Tougher rules on citizenship announced
24 September 2004 (167 words)
Uproar over destitute asylum seekers
Norway's largest municipalities are protesting that asylum policies are creating a homeless population.
21 September 2004 (102 words)
Christian fundamentalist groups come under criticism
A Pentecostal Church in the greater Oslo area has created a controversial revival movement among Muslim asylum seekers and some asylum centre leaders say the church is tricking its many visitors.
14 September 2004 (216 words)
Right-wing leader Hagen needs protection following anti-Islamic tirade
Progress Party Leader Carl I. Hagen has been issued with a mobile security alarm by police because they are worried he might become a target for terrorists because of anti-Islamic remarks he made last summer.
1 September 2004 (128 words)
Immigrant crime could lead to 'mafias'
According to research commissioned by the department of local government, ethnic gangs could give Norway the kind of organised crime that accompanied waves of migration to the US.
28 August 2004 (95 words)
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