Norway’s vast oil wealth has insulated it from the financial crisis. But problems abroad have still affected its economy. DAVID ROBINSON reports.
The after-effects of the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico look likely to spread far beyond the Louisiana coast.
The disaster has added an extra dimension to an already bitterly divisive debate among Norway’s three-party ruling coalition over whether it should allow deep-water drilling around the Lofoten and Vesterålen islands, to the north of the country.
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