Speech by Mr Dag Terje Andersen, President of the Storting, at the Nobel Banquette December 10 2012.

The President of the Storting and the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee will welcome two of the EU Presidents to the Norwegian Parliament on Tuesday 11 December.

Statement by Mr Dag Terje Andersen, President of the Storting: Is representative democracy in crisis? Challenges for national parliaments.

“In Europe, human rights violations against LGBT people are numerous and serious,” states Håkon Haugli (Labour Party), who, on 20 March, was elected as the first rapporteur for LGBT issues in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Ida Børresen was appointed as the new Secretary General of the Storting during a sitting in the Chamber in February.

The Storting’s Human Rights Commission was appointed to prepare and put forward recommendations for a limited revision of the Constitution with the object of strengthening the position of human rights in Norwegian law. Their report was delivered to the Presidium on 10 January 2012.

Speech made by the President of the Storting, Dag Terje Andersen, at the Nobel Banquet December 10 2011.

The Constitution, as laid down on 17 May 1814 by the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll and subsequently amended.