Saturday, March 8, 2008

Separatism in Norway

The Norwegian professor Frank Aarebrot warns about separatism in Norway in an interview with the Norwegian daily Dagsavisen.

According to him, there are signals in the western parts of Norway that people are pissed off with the centralised governent, and the fact that they don't see enough of the wealth that this part of the country is creating. Approximately 70 percent of the national wealth is created in this region, but only 28 percent is given back.

This might not happen tomorrow, but the spark to light something nasty will not necessarily be big, Aarebrot says. If someone turns up with the idea to create a regional protest party with separatist goals, "all hell could break loose."

The article can be read in Norwegian here.

2 comments:

~DanceForLife~ said...

akriti.bhraDear sir,
Thank you for this information. I am doing a project on Norway... and this has provided a deep insight to the problems in there.
Thanks alot.

Quenut said...

Akriti,

I am very pleased that my blog could be of help to you with your project. I wish you good luck with it.

It sounds interesting; what kind of project is it that you are doing?