prime minister

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This week, Norwegian police said they are looking into whether Jagland, the former prime minister, received gifts, travel or loans in connection with his position as the head of the Council of Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal

He then linked his attempts to gain the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to clinch the prize, telling the Norwegian prime minister that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Here are three moments that could prove dangerous for the prime minister.

From BBC

Despite the prime minister's attempt to defuse the row, some of his own MPs are calling on him to stand down.

From BBC

But the fragile coalition government of small groups, including several LDP defectors, didn't even last a year and the party was back in power in 1994, albeit with a Socialist Party prime minister.

From Barron's