Erik Lahnstein (born 15 June 1972) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
The Centre Party is an agrarian centrist political party in Norway. Founded in 1920 as a Nordic agrarian party, the Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralised economic development and political decision-making.
He was active in the Centre Youth from 1989, and was a board member of the Norwegian Children and Youth Council from 1991 to 1993. He took his education at the University of Oslo, with a cand.mag. degree in 1996, then a master's degree in 1997. He worked for the Norwegian Shipowners' Association from 1998 to 2005, then for Marut from September to October 2005. [1]
The Centre Youth is the youth organization of the Norwegian Centre Party. Hence, they advocate decentralization and stress their opposition of the European Union.
The University of Oslo, until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University, is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Until 1 January 2016 it was the largest Norwegian institution of higher education in terms of size, now surpassed only by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked it the 58th best university in the world and the third best in the Nordic countries. In 2015, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it the 135th best university in the world and the seventh best in the Nordics. While in its 2016, Top 200 Rankings of European universities, the Times Higher Education listed the University of Oslo at 63rd, making it the highest ranked Norwegian university.
Candidatus magisterii (male), or candidata magisterii (female), abbreviated as cand.mag., is an academic degree currently awarded in Denmark. The degree is officially translated into English as Master of Arts and currently requires 5 years of studies. The degree was historically also awarded in Norway and Iceland, based on the Danish degree.
When Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet assumed office following the 2005 election, he was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Transport and Communications. In October 2007 he was promoted to State Secretary. After a period as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2012, he returned to the Ministry of Transport and Communications in 2012. Before the end of the year, he had transferred once again to the Office of the Prime Minister. [1]
Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition between the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 September 2013, the coalition was defeated in the 2013 election.
In Norway, a State Secretary is a partisan political position within the executive branch of government. Contrary to the position Secretary of State in many other countries, the Norwegian State Secretary does not head his or her Ministry, rather, they are second in rank to a Minister. Resembling a de facto vice minister, the State Secretary, however, cannot attend a Council of State, and does not act as a temporary Minister in case of illness or other leave of absence.
The Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister is a political and bureaucratic office that assists the Cabinet of Norway and the Prime Minister of Norway in the leadership of the Cabinet and Government. It has since 2013 been led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Minister and Chief of Staff is Julie Brodtkorb. The office has about 60 employees.
He is the son of former party leader Anne Enger Lahnstein, and nephew of Inger S. Enger.
Anne Enger, formerly Anne Enger Lahnstein is a Norwegian politician who served as County Governor of Østfold from 2004 until 2015, and Leader of the Centre Party from 1991 to 1999 with opposition to the European Union. She was the front person of the successful "No to EU" campaign at the 1994 referendum. She was also the leader in the campaign against abortion on demand in Norway in the late 1970s.
Inger S. Enger is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party (SP). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland in 2001.
