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A forgiven, refined and anointed basket boy

Pliers: The financial industry takes control of the Norwegian public.

Permanent state of emergency?

CROWN: Are the European authorities truthful about how long the measures will last? Can you lock up a population for 12-18 months before a vaccine is developed?

Trouble in the top too

The corruption index shows that robust democratic institutions limit the level of corruption in the public sector.

The Oil Fund and the Skancke Committee

The question of whether the oil fund should be fossil-free is not new. 

Oil – the industry of the past

Several of the world's politicians and money managers are now turning their backs on the fossil industry for climate reasons. Norwegian politicians talk enthusiastically that Norway must take its share of global responsibility, but in the Oil Fund, investments in the fossil industry seem to continue as before.

Let the ethics apply to the entire Oil Fund!

A quarter of the Petroleum Fund's investments are still exempt from ethical guidelines. It is now high time that such are also introduced for the Petroleum Fund's investments ...

Norway lends billions to dictatorships

Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates bomb hospitals, schools and refugee camps in Yemen – and receive loans from Norway. 

Fear boycott and exclusion of the Oil Fund

Ethical guidelines for Norwegian lending can mean trouble for the Norwegian Oil Fund.

Western Sahara: does Norway contribute to the occupation?

While the Sahrawi is fighting for independence in Western Sahara, the Oil Fund continues to have interests in the occupied areas.