Who will manage Norway? – altaposten.no

Almost all political issues can be reversed. If you want more money for a road or rail, this can be done on the next state budget. If you want lower or higher taxes, this may also be changed next year. In short, most political decisions can be taken again.

When we move power out of Norway, it is different. In fact, it has not happened once that the parties that really want to enroll in the EU have helped to move power back to Norway from the EU. Therefore, we should be extremely careful about giving us control.

The Storting makes a historical mistake. A majority, consisting of the Right, Ap, Left, MDG and KrF, votes to make important parts of the EU’s fourth energy market package for Norwegian law. With that, they take a long step towards making Norway part of the EU’s energy union.

The Center Party has long fought for Norwegian self -reliance on our own natural resources. For me, this is one of the core of my opposition to a Norwegian membership in the EU. When the Center Party in the winter of 2018 did everything we could to prevent the introduction of the EU’s third energy market package, we were tried to be ridiculed. But in recent years, everyone has seen what is the consequence of giving us power over energy policy. When Norway no longer has the right to limit electricity exports out of the country, things go completely wrong. The electricity price explodes.

This is only possible because the forces that want to report Norway into the EU are very strong. Right decided at its national meeting this winter that they quickly Will be able to start membership negotiations with the EU. Similarly, the Left and MDG have promoted Norwegian EU membership as one of its most important issues. When the EU dream is so strong, it is not surprising that the same parties do what they can to make Norway part of the EU’s energy union.

The Center Party believed it was a scandal when Frp’s deputy leader and then Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Søviknes, brought the Storting to introduce the EU’s third energy market package, and with the transferred sovereignty to ACER. « Yes to the EU parties » should learn from their mistakes.

Norwegian self -reliance on Norwegian electricity and energy policy is a fundamental important question. Therefore, the Center Party went out of government with the Labor Party. We could not and would not accept that more power is moved out of our country. Instead of giving more power to the EU, we should take back national control over energy policy. The Center Party has therefore proposed that Norway introduce export restrictions on Norwegian electricity.

There is one important reason why we have not brought a majority in the Storting on this grip: it violates the EU’s rules.

But we in the Center Party do not give us. For Norway is built on cheap electricity. And if we want to take care of our power -intensive industry, if we want to take care of business across the country, develop the whole country, then we have no choice …

Then we must take back national control over Norwegian energy policy. Say no to new foreign cables. No at German electricity prices in Norway. And a clear no to the EU’s energy union.

Trygve Slagsvold Vedum

Head of the Center Party

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