SV will gather for a national meeting in Oslo this weekend. There, brewing on electricity, energy and the party’s Europe policy. -If we were to terminate the EEA agreement, we would have had another alternative in place, says Sunniva Holmås Eidsvoll, who heads SV’s largest county council, Oslo. – It does not seem realistic to negotiate a new trade agreement in the midst of a major international trade war, she adds. Power riot: A significant minority in SV wants to write about the party’s power policy. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo Eidsvoll will Frede the EEA agreement in the next period and will receive full support from the counties in Nordland and Møre og Romsdal. Their attitude is contrary to the recommendation of the majority in the government, where the entire SV party leadership is represented. -I expect the National Assembly to adopt a new text, where we make it clear that the EEA resistance is fixed, but that we resemble the agreement this period, says Christian Torset in Nordland SV. Facts about SV’s national meeting are held in the People’s House in Oslo 14-16. March. Will debate and adopt a new party program for the period 2025-2029. This is the program SV goes for election in September. Discussions are expected about, among other things, the EEA, power policy, taxation of child benefit, onshore wind power, the Northern Norway track and regulated sales of cannabis. Party leader Kirsti Bergstø, deputy leader Marian Hussain and party secretary Audun Herning is set for re -election. Lars Haltbrekken is nominated as new deputy leader after Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes. (Sources: SV and news) “Work to terminate” specifically, the SV peaks disagree on whether it should be in the program that the SV should “work to terminate the EEA Agreement and replace it with a balanced trade agreement with the EU”. Nordland, Møre and Romsdal and the party’s largest county, Oslo SV, will simply stroke the entire point. First candidate Torset in Nordland SV believes the US security guarantee is worth little as long as Trump is president and recalls that all of Europe is now working to develop new defense cooperation. Resistance: Christian Torset in Nordland SV wants to Frede the EEA Agreement. Photo: Kåre Riibe Ramskjell – We are still against the EEA, but believe it is out of date to start an cancellation process before we have put in place a credible security policy, he tells news. Also in the original program proposal, the old point was to “terminate the EEA Agreement” and “replace it with a broad trade and cooperation agreement outside”. Instead, it was said that SV will work to “expand the room for action in the EEA Agreement”. But the government of the party has made sure to sharpen the tone and thus got a majority for a wording that the SV should work to terminate the agreement. Fight for electricity and power Also on Norwegian connection to the EU’s energy policy, it will be struggled. Oslo SV completely disagrees with party leader Kirsti Bergstø, who in several interviews has said that Norway must leave the EU’s energy agency ACER. “If we pull Norway out of ACER, then it will ensure a completely different security and predictability when it comes to managing our own policy, Bergstø told NTB this winter. In the proposal the national meeting will decide on, it is advocated to report Norway out of the EU’s energy agency ACER, say no to the EU’s fourth energy market package and say no to new foreign cables that transfer electricity between Norway and Europe. The class struggle has also written about this. ACER resistance: SV leader Kirsti Bergstø wants Norway to say no to the EU’s energy agency. Photo: Ørn E. Borgen / NTB Eidsvoll in Oslo SV responds that the majority believes the price of electricity should be set “based on the production costs in Norway”. Producing electricity in Norway costs about 12 øre per kilowatt hour. The electricity price cannot be set politically or based on production costs, says Eidsvoll. -What the majority is in favor of is very extreme with transferring funds from publicly owned hydroelectric power plants to private persons and owners of the industry, says the SV summit. She recalls that hydropower today is owned by municipalities, county municipalities and the state, and that power revenues go to secure welfare. – If we are going to sell the power at cost to the inhabitants, then all the power revenues of the community will fall away, and it will be a pure transfer to private individuals and owners of companies. I think that is a completely hair -raising policy, which I really hope that the National Assembly in SV will not advocate. Also when it comes to foreign cables, there will be a fight. The majority will “renegotiate agreements on foreign cables with Germany and the United Kingdom, not renew the cables of Denmark and not build new foreign cables”. The minority will have softer formulations and that the SV should “be critical of” to renew the cables. – From security of supply, we have to have cables abroad, says Eidsvoll. Published 11.03.2025, at. 21.29
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