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A conflict over the Energy Policies of the European Union has led to the collapse of the Norway coalition government, just as the threats of US President Donald Trump were appointed to impose customs tariffs and Greenland's assumption to reshape a discussion about Oslo joining the bloc.
Prime Minister Jonas Campaign Sahir Store to implement three I am energy The directives of the sudden departure of his European party partner, the pro -agricultural center party, led to Thursday. The collapse of the coalition leaves the Labor Party the Prime Minister to rule alone until the elections later this year.
“We should not give up more strength of the European Union,” said Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Center for the Central Party and Norwegian Finance Minister.
Both parties have pledged to the coalition in recent weeks Opposition Among the electrical connections in Norway with Denmark, which has caused anxiety across Europe about the visible energy nationalism.
Norway, one of the richest European countries, thanks to its abundant oil and gas reserves, as well as the abundant electrical energy, is not part of the European Union but it adopts most of the bloc laws because of its membership in the European Economic Zone. The three guidance in the case of renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy performance of buildings are concerned.
The friction between Oslo and Brussels has increased in recent years, as many European Union countries believed that Norway needs to be more generous with electrical energy and not threatening to stop exporting energy via interconnected connections to Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany.
“We are not happy with Norway. The feelings are bad as I knew it. The European Union ambassador to Oslo said:” Norway appears selfish, in an attempt to preserve this electricity for itself even because it achieves a lot of money from selling gas to us. “
The situation is complicated by Trump's return as an American president. Some of the higher characters in placeThe Labor Party believes that Norway needs to strengthen its relations with the European Union to avoid isolation if the United States is setting a customs tariff in Europe.
On Thursday, Store said it has no plans to implement the other five parts of the European Union clean power package, which relates to the electricity market, while maintaining Oslo in a possible collision cycle with Brussels. The European Commission gave Norway to May to implement the package.
Others were concerned about the renewed batch of Trump to acquire Greenland from Denmark, believing that he could have consequences on the island of Svles in the Norwegian Arctic, where Russia has its own settlement.
Norway rejected the European Union's membership in a referendum in the European Union in 1994, leaving the matter only in the European Economic Zone, a position that some mocked in Oslo to have to take the bases of the bloc without an opinion in it. Opinion polls indicate that the majority of Norwegians are still against membership.
“It will take a real shock, perhaps something from Trump, to restart the discussion of the European Union here,” said one of the senior actors on the thirtieth anniversary of the referendum last year.
Parliamentary elections are determined in Norway in history, which means that the Labor Party is likely to continue as a unilateral minority government until September 8. Through the political spectrum to pass the measures, including the European Union's directives.
