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For Spotlight, François Picard welcomes Carl Henrik Knutsen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. For many years, he has studied the fragility and resilience of democratic institutions. The shockwaves caused by the Epstein files have struck a nerve in Norway, one of the Nordic countries regarded as a model of transparency and democratic virtue. Norway is now facing a reckoning over informal power networks, diplomatic opacity and the cost of assuming that "low corruption" equals "no corruption".

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