Ola Borten Moe

Ola Borten Moe
Minister of Petroleum and Energy
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 March 2011
Monarch	Harald V
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Terje Riis-Johansen
Member of Parliament for Sør-Trøndelag
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 September 2005
Personal details
Born	6 June 1976(1976-06-06) Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag
Political party	Centre Party
Spouse(s)	Anna Ceselie Brustad Moe
Children	Two
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Agronomist, self-employed, farmer, political advisor

Ola Borten Moe (born 6 June 1976) is a Norwegian politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Centre Party.

Early and personal life

Borten Moe was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag to farmer Peder O. Moe (born 1948) and nurse Kari Borten (born 1950).^[1] He is the grandson of former Prime Minister Per Borten,^[2] and married to fellow MP Anna Ceselie Brustad Moe. As of June 2009 they have two children together.^[3]

Political career

Borten Moe was a member of the Trondheim city council for three four-year terms, from 1995 to 2007. He was elected MP of the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 2005, after serving as deputy MP from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 Borten Moe was a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment, and from 2007 to 2009 Chairman of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry.^[1]

Borten Moe became Minister of Petroleum and Energy on March 4, 2011.^[4]

Political views

Since the turning towards the left of the Centre Party in the 2000s, Borten Moe is regarded as being among the "centrist" wing of the party,^[5] and has been claimed to have the ambition of moving the party back towards the right.^[6] He holds many traditional Centre Party issues strongly, such as opposition to the European Union, holding that "I think that we, within the frame of the Norwegian nation state has the opportunity of building a best possible society". He also believe that too much power, funds and competence has been centralised to the area around the capital Oslo.^[3]

In October 2009, he traveled to Denmark to study the asylum policies of the country. He then said that the number of asylum seekers coming to Norway was way too high, and that Norway should learn from the policies of Denmark, and generally tighten the Norwegian asylum policy.^[7] In 2010 he said it was extremely important that Norwegians discuss which values Norwegian society should be based on in the future. He stated as the basic foundations; democracy, human rights, respect for individuals and equality between sexes, and considered it dangerous to think about these values as platitudes. He also compared radical Islam to Nazism, and regarding the granting of asylum to terrorists, he questioned if one would have given asylum to extreme-right Germans after World War II when they also risked death penalties in Germany.^[8]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Moe, Ola Borten ( 1976- )". Stortinget.no. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=OBM. 
2. ^ Ekeberg, Liv (6 June 2006). "Bortens enke er død". NA24. http://arkiv.na24.no/Nyhet/163465/Bortens+enke+er+d%C3%B8d.html. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Agerlie, Kristin (15 June 2009). "Ola kjempar for landet". NRK. http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_trondelag/valg_2009_trondelag/1.6652602. 
4. ^ Office of the Prime Minister (4 March 2011). "Endring i regjeringen" (in Norwegian). regjeringen.no. http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/smk/pressesenter/pressemeldinger/2011/endring-i-regjeringen.html?id=635250. Retrieved 4 March 2011. 
5. ^ Ellingsen, Elisabeth Breien (27 March 2009). "Ola Borten Moe: Derfor skrev jeg SV-kronikken". VG Nett. http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/norsk-politikk/artikkel.php?artid=561366. 
6. ^ "Varaordfører varsler rødgrønt brudd i Trondheim". Dagbladet. 15 January 2010. http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/01/15/nyheter/innenriks/politikk/sp/sv/9934787/. 
7. ^ "– Døra inn til Norge må bli trangere". Aftenposten. 28 October 2009. http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/article3343158.ece. 
8. ^ Kristjánsson, Mímir (17 July 2010). "Kriger for verdier". Klassekampen. http://www.klassekampen.no/57709/article/item/null/kriger-for-verdier. 

External links

• "Ola Borten Moe" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=OBM&tab=Biography. 

Preceded by Terje Riis-Johansen

Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy 2011–present

Incumbent

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Name	Moe, Ola Borten
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Date of birth	6 June 1976
Place of birth	Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag
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