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| | Norway Turns Left. Or Is it Right? |
 | | The “blue” coalition of the Right Party (H), the Christian-Democrat Party (Krf) of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, and the Left Party (V) (which in Norway is a center-right party!) has been voted out of power. |
 | | The Right Party, though it was the biggest party in the previous coalition, had not put its own leader, Erna Solberg, forward as a candidate for Prime Minister, which clearly placed it at a disadvantage in the competition with the other parties. |
 | | Norway is, indeed, the world’s most wealthy country, but unlike Iceland - the world’s second wealthiest country - the key to Norway’s wealth is oil and not the liberalisation of the economy. |
| www.brusselsjournal.com /node/256/print (628 words) |
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