Torbjorn Tumyr Nilsen

* The elections in Africa's most populous countries can divide Nigeria into 2015, while elections in Europe can create more divisions. At the same time as right-wing populist parties are emerging, left-wing parties tend to gain power in both Spain and Greece.
* – I hope for a peace agreement with Putin, says Olga Vlasova to Ny Tid. Here is 2015. It looks like the world needs you more than in a long time.

The paper lexicon wasn't dead yet. It has resurfaced at best, behind a newly broken window. On the way there it has become subjective, counterfactual and calfskin bound.

Refugees. While Erna Solberg (H) and the blue-blue government say no to 123 sick Syrian refugees because they are getting too expensive, Sweden and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in the sister party Moderate unions do the opposite.

The bourgeois promised that there would be no oil exploration in Vesterålen. But 19. September still starts seismic shooting at Andøya, with Statoil support. "Sneaky oil exploration," critics say. – Violation of the cooperation agreement, says Venstre. The Minister of Fisheries warns against blockade.

9 closed streets. Bicycle ban in the Maridalen. Hundreds of security guards. And carrots. These are the new physical tracks in the Norwegian capital, also far outside the city center, three years after 22. July. At the same time, the Castle stands without any more protection.

The UN, Italy, Libya and Norwegian NGOs are asking Norway to do more for the refugees embarking on life-threatening sea voyages in the Mediterranean. They think the Mediterranean countries are taking on too much of the burden. But the H / FRP government believes that Norway is the country that gives most Syrian refugees residence: – For the Government, it is not relevant to grant additional refugees access to apply for "humanitarian visa" in addition, the message from the Ministry of Justice.

Nonviolence activist Olga Vlasova points out flaws on both sides of the Ukraine conflict. – I have lost some friends because of differences of opinion, admits the Ukrainian-Norwegian activist who is committed to a united Ukraine.

The Crimean Peninsula's detachment from Ukraine could be the start of a large number of new countries in Europe. Venice has voted to break out of Italy, 150 years after the country gathered all the city states. Catalonia, the Basque Country, Greenland and Scotland can take a turn: But in the Hebrides, many would rather be part of Norway than of a free Scotland. Professor Øystein Sørensen calls for increased awareness of Europe's growing micronationalism.

Odessa chief rabbi warns against increased Jewish hatred under the new Kiev government. Jahn Otto Johansen is frightened by the Nazi symbols at Maidan Square and asks the Foreign Ministry to distance himself. Both the SV and the Greens now demand that Børge Brende more clearly support moderate forces in the country.