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	Elections in Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norway has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
		In Norway, elections are held every second year, alternating between elections for the Parliament and local elections, both of which are held on a 4-yearly basis.
		Norway is divided into 19 counties, and each county is a constituency in the election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Norway (771 words)

	Norway. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Norway is a constitutional monarchy; executive power, while nominally held by the monarch, is exercised by a council of ministers led by the prime minister.
		The history of Norway before the age of the Vikings is indistinct from that of the rest of Scandinavia.
		Norway was one of the original members of the United Nations (the Norwegian Trygve Lie was the first UN Secretary-General), and it became a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949.
	www.bartleby.com /65/no/Norway.html (2041 words)

	Election
		Elections are held in many settings from student council s to corporate officers.
		In the 2004 Iranian parliamentary elections almost all of the reformist candidates were ruled unfit by the Guardian Council of religious leaders.
		In order for democratic elections to be fair and competitive, opposition parties and candidates must enjoy the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and movement as necessary to voice their criticisms of the government openly and to bring alternative policies and candidates to the voters.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Election.html (1983 words)

	Norway Information
		Norway, officially Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian Kongeriket Norge), constitutional monarchy in northern Europe, occupying the western and northern portions of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
		In the highlands of North Norway the climate is subarctic.
		The population of Norway was estimated at 4,297,436 in 1993.
	www.otal.umd.edu /SHORE98/bs24/norway.htm (6585 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
		Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
		The results of parliamentary elections held in Portugal since 1975 (now including results of the early legislative election held on Sunday, February 20, 2005), as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Portuguese legislature are available in Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
		The results of parliamentary elections held in Denmark since 1990 (now including final results of the early parliamentary election held on Tuesday, February 8, 2005), as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Danish legislature are available in Elections to the Danish Folketing.
	electionresources.org (623 words)

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		Norway is in the top rank of nations in the number of books printed per capita, even though Norwegian is one of the world's smallest language groups.
		Norway was one of the signers of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations.
		Norway and the other European Free Trade Association (EFTA) members are in the process of concluding an economic cooperation agreement with the EC under the framework of the European Economic Area (EEA).
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/backgroundnotes/norway.txt (2159 words)

	Norwegian EU referendum, 1994 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A referendum on whether Norway should join the European Union was held on 28 November 1994.
		The main themes of the "No" campaign were loss of sovereignty if Norway should join the Union, as well as the fundamental differences in economic structure between Norway and the EU, as Norway has an economy based heavily on natural resources (especially oil and fish), in contrast to the EU's more industrial economy.
		The main arguments of the "Yes" side were that as a European country, Norway belonged in the European Union, and that Norway's economy would benefit greatly from membership.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Norwegian_EU_referendum,_1994 (336 words)

	Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Norway was a neutral country during World War I. Norway also attempted to claim neutrality during World War II, but was invaded by German forces on the 9th of April 1940 (Operation Weserübung).
		Norway was one of the signatory of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations, providing its first secretary general – Trygve Lie.
		Norway's annual inflation rate was 2.0 percent in September, compared to 1.9 percent a month earlier and 1.1 percent a year earlier, Statistics Norway announced Monday.
	www.infothis.com /find/Norway (2171 words)

	Migration News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In mid-September elections in Norway, the 25-year-old anti-immigrant Progress Party captured 15.5 percent of the vote, up from six percent in 1993.
		Norway, a country of 4.4 million, is the world's second largest oil exporter.
		Immigrants now make up five percent of Norway's population of 4.3 million; unemployment among foreigners in Norway was 16 percent in spring 1997, four times higher than the four percent rate for Norwegians.
	migration.ucdavis.edu /mn/comments.php?id=1344_0_4_0 (412 words)

	Venstre (Norway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venstre (the Norwegian word for: Left, sometimes referred to as the Liberal Party in international context) is a liberal party in Norway, subscribing to social-liberalism.
		It is the oldest political party in Norway, founded in 1884 as a critic of the Swedish-Norwegian Union.
		It currently holds two out of 165 seats in the Norwegian Parliament and has three cabinet ministers out of 19.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Venstre_(Norway) (157 words)

	Norwegian elections Sept. 15: Newsletter 7, 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are general elections in Norway on the 15th of this month and the latest polls seem to suggest a change of government from the current Labour administration.
		Most surprising in the polls is the showing of the right-wing Progress party, which seems set to garner 25% - a massive boost from the 6.3% they won at the election in 1993, and suggesting that the Progress Party of Carl I. Hagen could become the second largest parliamentary party in the country.
		Norway is not an EU member, has major oil and gas reserves, and is looking at a budget surplus for the third successive year this year.
	www.norden.org /top/9707/i.htm (241 words)

	CNN.com - Norway urged to keep EU option open - November 9, 2000
		OSLO, Norway -- Norway should keep her options open for European Union membership before 2005 despite a "No" vote in a 1994 referendum, the head of Norway's ruling Labour Party said on Thursday.
		Norway is the only nation to have negotiated and rejected EU membership -- and it has done so twice, in 1994 and 1972.
		Norway is a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) with Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/scandinavia/11/09/norway.eu (558 words)

	Norway (07/05)
		Norway is one of the world's richest countries in per capita terms.
		Norway is not a member of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union and does not have a fixed exchange rate.
		Norway is the world's third-largest oil exporter and provides much of western Europe's crude oil and gas requirements.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3421.htm (2411 words)

	CNN.com - Norway poised for power shift - Sep 12, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stoltenberg, a 42-year-old economist, said he hoped to be Norway's next prime minister at the head of a three-party government, including the Socialists who have never been in power, which would take office in mid-October.
		Norway is the third largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and Russia, making its 4.6 million people among the wealthiest in the world.
		Norway has 350 troops stationed in Afghanistan and about 20 soldiers with NATO forces in Iraq, though it did not support the U.S.-led invasion.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/09/12/norway.election.reut (700 words)

	yehey! News
		Deles conceded that the government did not have a ceasefire in place with the NPA but said their actions could be considered a violation of the comprehensive agreement on human rights that both sides had agreed to in earlier talks.
		Deles said the issue of extortion was raised in the last round of peace talks with the government held in Norway last month but there had not been time to discuss it in depth.
		Norway's assistant director for foreign affairs, Tore Hattrem, said that the next round of talks would be held in April although he would not say whether they would again be held in Norway.
	www.yehey.com /news/print.aspx?a=64730 (370 words)

	THE NORWAY'S ELECTIONS: The Victory of a "Red - Green" Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During the elections in Norway the main dispute was basically about the effective utilization of the huge financial assets received from export of oil.
		The matter is that Norway has its own stocks of oil that allows it to take the third place in the world on the export of this product.
		At the moment Norway is on the first place in the world on a standard of living.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=385 (704 words)

	European elections monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For several years Norway – mainly thanks to its oil reserves and that it manages with the greatest care- is the country with the highest standard of living in the world according to the ranking published by the UN Programme for Development.
		He stressed that not being a European Union member enabled Norway to choose its policy but it was a disadvantage for the country not to be able to influence the decisions that were affecting it to an ever increasing degree.
		These two parties are fighting for Norway to withdraw from NATO and the European Economic Area (EEA) and favour the country’s entry into the European Union contrary to the social democrat party.
	www.robert-schuman.fr /anglais/oee/norvege (2460 words)

	No big change - Regional and Municipal Elections in Norway, Sept. 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The biggest losers in these elections are the Conservatives (Høyre) and the Christian Democrats (KrF), while both the left camp and the right wing Progressive Party (FrP) have emerged as winners.
		The Labour Party (AP) continues to be the biggest political party in Norway with its 27.5% while the Socialist Left (SV) increased their share to 13% and the Progressive Party made it to 17.9%, according to election prognosis done by ErgoEphorma for the national TV, NRK.
		No one is quite sure for the reasons for the downturn, which has been consistent since 1963, but some political analysts attribute this to the monotonous and recurrent election promises which have left many voters disillusioned with politics.
	www.antirasistisk-senter.no /english/news/election_norway_2003.html (385 words)

	Freedom in the World 1999 - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The poor showing during the September municipal elections of Norway’s traditionally dominant Labor Party reflected the party’s diminishing popularity among voters and the weakened position of its leader, Thorbjorn Jagland.
		The Eisvold Convention, Norway’s current constitution, was adopted during a period of de facto independence immediately prior to the acceptance of the Swedish monarch as king of Norway in 1814.
		After the peaceful dissolution of its relationship with the Swedish crown, Norway chose a sovereign from a Danish royal house and began to function as a constitutional monarchy with a multiparty parliamentary structure.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2000/countryratings/norway.htm (265 words)

	Aftenposten Norway, Norwegian news in English
		Seven students from a junior high school in southern Norway were caught at the border between Poland and the Czech Republic in an apparent attempt to smuggle home weapons.
		Norway's prime minister was among those who turned out Monday evening for a memorial in Oslo to mourn those killed by the devastating earthquake centered in Pakistan over the weekend.
		Norway's national soccer squad qualified for World Cup playoffs over the weekend, after beating Moldova 1-0 on home turf.
	www.aftenposten.no /english (576 words)

	Norway
		Norway is situated in the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula.
		After 1442, Norway was ruled by Danish kings until 1814, when it was united with Sweden—although retaining a degree of independence and receiving a new constitution—in an uneasy partnership.
		In Sept. 12 elections, the center-left Red-Green coalition gained a majority of seats, and the ruling center-right coalition lost one-third of its seats.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107851.html (803 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Norway
		Norwegian elections: a victory for the labour movement
		In the recent elections in Norway the Norwegian working class did not vote for this or that party, or this or that electoral alliance.
		The amazing thing is that although Norway is a debt-free country we have the same policies of cuts in welfare and attacks on working conditions as everywhere else in the world.
	www.marxist.com /norway.htm (178 words)

	BarentsObserver : Norway
		Norway in September arranged the biggest international emergency training operation in the Barents Region ever.
		The company Siemens Norway is to construct power generators for the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in the Pechora Sea.
		Oil drilling in the Arctic and gas-fired power generation are the thorniest issues for Norway's left-of-centre election winners as they build a coalition, Jens Stoltenberg, the coming Norwegian prime minister says.
	www.barentsobserver.com /index.php?cat=16282&offset=20&ps=20 (1336 words)

	Background Note: Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Until the 1981 election, Norway had been governed by Labor Party governments since 1935, except for three periods (1963, 1965-71, and 1972-73).
		Norway's emergence as a major oil and gas producer in the mid- 1970s transformed the economy.
		Norway has a draft system in which all able-bodied males are subject to military service.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bgnotes/eur/norway9208.html (2085 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		It would also be one of the first cases of observers from the former Soviet republics, many of which are still struggling with the transition to democracy, monitoring an election in the West.
		Norway, like the other Nordic countries, has a highly developed democracy and a strong tradition of free and fair elections.
		Blakkisrud said they had wanted the OSCE to organize the election monitoring, but the group did not have the capacity to do it.
	www.hinduonnet.com /holnus/003200508260310.htm (349 words)

	ABC News: Close Race Marks Elections in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jens Stoltenberg, opposition leader and leader of the Norwegian Labour party, casts his vote in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Oslo, Monday, Sept. 12th 2005.
		Norway's general election promised to be a tight race Monday between the governing center-right coalition and a left-leaning opposition bloc that wants to shift spending of the Nordic nation's oil wealth from tax relief to fixing cracks in the welfare system.
		OSLO, Norway Sep 12, 2005 —; Norwegians lined up at polling stations Monday in what promised to be a close race between a governing center-right coalition advocating lower taxes and a left-leaning opposition that wants to spend more of the Nordic nation's oil wealth on the welfare system.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1118212&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (435 words)

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