With hours to go till the announcement of this yr’s Nobel peace prize, Norwegian politicians have been steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it’s not awarded to Donald Trump.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly stated on Thursday that it had reached a call about who could be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday, a number of days earlier than Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire beneath the US president’s Gaza plan.
Considering the timeframe and the composition of the impartial five-person committee, most Nobel consultants and Norwegian observers consider it’s extremely unlikely that Trump will likely be awarded the prize, resulting in fears within the nation over how he’ll react to being ignored so publicly.
Kirsti Bergstø, the chief of Norway’s Socialist Left occasion and its overseas coverage spokesperson, stated Oslo have to be “ready for something.”
“Donald Trump is taking the US in an excessive route, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping folks in broad daylight and cracking down on establishments and the courts. When the president is that this unstable and authoritarian, after all we’ve got to be ready for something,” Bergstø informed the Guardian.
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