Masud Gharahkhani, President of the Storting, and Ine Eriksen Søreide, Chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, gave speeches to mark Liberation and Veterans Day on 8th May 2025.
Nazi Germany’s invasion of Norway on 9th April 1940 put the Storting out of action. The Elverum Authorization empowered the Government “to safeguard the interests of the realm” until the Storting was next able to sit. But this was not to take place until 14th June 1945, more than a month after World War II ended in Europe.
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