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The FPA was founded in 1990. It is an association for foreign correspondents in Norway, aiming to facilitate the work of international journalists.

It organises meetings with key politicians, business leaders and other newsmakers, as well as press trips and social events. The FPA is open to all journalists covering Norway for international media, the FPA currently has about 75 members.

10/06/2025

"Here in NATO...Norway, sorry!"
That was an easy mistake from previous NATO Secretary General, now Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who met us this morning...

We discussed about the Norwegian Pension Fund, trade war, defence expenditures, and potential trade sanctions to Israel.

06/06/2025

⛑️ 🦺 We are thankful that Jan Egeland, Secretary General at the NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council , got the time to meet journalists from FPA, last week.

The humanitarian sector is facing rising pressures as global aid funding shrinks, and humanitarian organisations are continually hindered in their work, especially by the Israeli government, Egeland says.

19/05/2025

🎙️ Election season is heating up – and so are our press briefings!
At the Foreign Press Association, we're kicking things off with none other than Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (AP) 🇳🇴

This morning, over 20 foreign reporters joined downtown Oslo, diving into topics beyond the September elections.

Stay tuned – more party leaders to come!
(Oslo, May 19)

04/04/2025

FPA held it's annual general meeting on April 3. Richard Milne was reelected as the president of the association with Gwladys Fouché as deputy leader. Alister Doyle takes over as treasurer. All three seen in the picture above. The other board members are: Mieszko Czarnecki, Pierre Deshayes, Sigrid Harms, Björn Lindahl, Daniela de Lorenzo, Anita Pratap, Elisabeth Ulven and Ott Ummelas.

20/01/2025

On Dec 18 many of the members of FPA celebrated Christmas with a dinner at Sumo on Karl Johans gate. Following a long tradition we choose a restaurant with the same kind of cuisine as the Peace Prize was awarder to. 2024 it was Nihon Hidankyo the grassroot movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, and their efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

13/11/2024

FPA met the two counter parts in the EU debate in Norway and got their view on how likely it is that Norway will have a third EU referendum (earlier Norway has said no 1972 and 1994). As long as the polls show a clear majority for those against a Norwegian membership there will not be a referendum, they both agreed. "But we are ready to push the red button if things change. Today Nei til EU has 19 000 members. At the highest it was 140 000" said Einar Frogner, who last weekend was re-elected as chairman of Nei til EU. But Europabevegelsen is also growing. "The week after Trump won the US election we got 400 new members", said Heidi Nordby Lunde, head of Europabevegelesen.

03/11/2024

Kjetil B. Alstadheim, political affairs editor in Aftenposten, shared his thoughts about the Norwegian EU-debate, with the members of FPA. He has recently published a book about what has happened after the two referendums where Norwegians voted no to EU, in 1972 and 1994. "Everyone was wrong" is the title of the book, where the conclusion is that neither the Yes-side nor the No-side where right in how EU would evolve, and what would happen to Norway outside the EU, but inside the EEA. Astadheim knows how to formulate good quotes like: "The Progress party has no sister parties in Europe, but it does have drunk uncles" and "Norway has a tradition of breaking out of unions, not joining them".

08/10/2024

Norway is bolstering defences in the Arctic north, the head of the Norwegian Armed Forces told the FPA after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 prompted Sweden and Finland to join NATO.

General Eirik Johan Kristoffersen also said in the Oct. 7 briefing that he saw “two existential threats to the world” – global warming and the risks of an arms race with use of nuclear weapons.

“We have to invest more in the north,” Kristoffersen, an army general, said of Norway's updated role in NATO now that its two Nordic allies are helping to defend NATO's eastern flank and the Baltic Sea region.

“Swedish and Finnish membership of NATO changes our way of thinking. Now we have to plan with them. Being an ally is more than being a friend,” he said.

Norway, a founding member of NATO, has a 196-km long border with Russia in the Arctic north. Russia has redeployed most of the troops in the region to Ukraine.

“It’s basically shocking how many soldiers Russia is sending to the front line … The losses are enormous: this is a tragedy for the Russian people.”

He said that Norwegian soldiers guarding the remote border were joking that: ‘It’s like the Cold War again – we are facing east and they are facing east’. Moscow, he said, seemed more worried by its own citizens than any threat from its western neighbour.

03/10/2024

"It has to be António Guterres who gets the Peace Prize this year!" said historian Asle Sveen, when he together with the director of PRIO, Henrik Urdal, specualated who will get this years prize, in a meeting with FPA. Guterres has served since 2017 as secretary-general of the United Nations. Henrik Urdal has OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights on top but also have two UN organisations; UNRWA and UNESCO, on his list. He also has Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms and the International Court of Justice among his top five candidates.

22/05/2024

On a historic day, when Norway recognised Palestine, FPA met Jan Egeland, who has been the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013. He served as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1997 and was then involved in the secret negotiations that led to the Oslo treaty.
- The recognition of Palestine is long overdue, said Jan Egeland, who leads an organisation that has more than 15 000 fieldworkers all over the world - 45 of them still in Gaza.

16/05/2024

FPA today met Beate Gangås, the director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, which recently presented it's yearly National threat assessment. "We believe there is an even chance that extreme Islamists and right-wing extremists will attempt to carry out terrorist acts in Norway in 2024", she said.
A worrying trend is that the persons who are active on the Internet and discussing terror acts are younger and younger. The threat assessment can be downloaded here, in Norwegian and English: https://pst.no/alle-artikler/trusselvurderinger/ntv-2023/

30/04/2024

The Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, met the FPA at Norway International Press Center April 30. Richard Milne welcomed him and was glad that FPA meeting Støre now has become an annual tradition. As NEWSinEnglish.no reported from the meeting: Støre said his government’s support for Ukraine’s defense against Russian invaders is “uniquely flexible.” It’s carried out through the so-called Nansen Program, initially set up to provide NOK 75 billion in aid over a five-year period. It allows the government “to respond to needs as we go along,” Støre said.

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