Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide

Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide during the Munich Security Conference 2016

Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (born May 2, 1976 in Lørenskog ) is a Norwegian politician of the conservative party Høyre . After the parliamentary elections in 2013 , Prime Minister Erna Solberg appointed Søreide as Defense Minister of Norway to her cabinet. She has been Norway's first female foreign minister since 2017.

Life

Eriksen Søreide studied law at the University of Tromsø from 1995 . During this time she became a member of the Conservative Party Høyre and was involved in local politics. From 2000 to 2004 she was chairman of the youth party Unge Høyre . She is also a member of the Høyre party executive.

She ran for the Storting in the 2001 parliamentary elections in Oslo and has been a member of parliament ever since.

Special

Eriksen Søreide, in an interview in the course of the Crimean crisis in 2014, called for greater armament efforts by all European NATO countries. In April 2014, she said that Norway was particularly at risk because of its nearly 200-kilometer-long shared border with Russia .

Eriksen Søreide is married to the conservative politician Øystein Eriksen Søreide .

Web links

Commons : Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
• Søreide, Ine M. Eriksen (1976-). stortinget.no, accessed August 26, 2017 (Norwegian). 
• Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide. hoyre.no, accessed August 26, 2017 (Norwegian). 
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide

Individual evidence

1. ^ Response to conflict in Ukraine. In: tagesschau.de . Tagesschau at Das Erste , April 22, 2014, archived from the original on April 23, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2014 : "Considerable reinforcement of the military"