{"id":113711,"date":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113711\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:19:08","slug":"norway-braces-for-trumps-reaction-if-he-does-not-win-nobel-peace-prize-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113711\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway braces for Trump\u2019s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

With hours to go until the announcement of this year\u2019s Nobel peace prize<\/a>, Norwegian politicians were steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it is not awarded to Donald Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who would be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday, several days before Israel and Hamas<\/a> agreed to a ceasefire under the US <\/a>president\u2019s Gaza plan.<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking into account the timeframe and the composition of the independent five-person committee, most Nobel experts and Norwegian observers believe it is highly unlikely that Trump will be awarded the prize, leading to fears in the country over how he will react to being overlooked so publicly.<\/p>\n

Kirsti Bergst\u00f8, the leader of Norway\u2019s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said Oslo must be \u201cprepared for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,\u201d Ms Bergst\u00f8 said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I\u2019m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has long been outspoken about his belief that he should be awarded the peace prize, an honour previously bestowed on one of his presidential predecessors, Barack Obama, <\/a>in 2009 for his \u201cextraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples\u201d.<\/p>\n

In July, Mr Trump reportedly called Jens Stoltenberg, Norway\u2019s finance minister and the former Nato secretary general, to ask about the Nobel prize. <\/p>\n

At the UN last month, Mr Trump falsely claimed that he had halted seven \u201cunendable wars\u201d, telling world leaders: \u201cEveryone says I should get the Nobel peace prize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arild Hermstad, the leader of the Green Party of Norway, said the Nobel committee\u2019s independence is what gives the prize its credibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace prizes are earned through sustained commitment, not through social media tantrums and not from intimidation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s good that Trump supported the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Any step toward ending the suffering in Gaza is welcome. But one late contribution does not erase years of enabling violence and division.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, said the decision was finalised at the most recent meeting of the Nobel committee on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mr Harpviken said decisions were apolitical, although the appointing of committee members by the Norwegian parliament in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel, who bequeathed the money to fund the prizes that bear his name, may complicate that impression.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know first-hand the committee acts completely independently. But Alfred Nobel made it somewhat difficult for us by writing in his will that it must be appointed by the parliament. That, unfortunately, is non-negotiable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The newspaper columnist and analyst Harald Stanghelle speculated that retribution from Mr Trump \u2013 if it were to come \u2013 could take the form of tariffs, demands for higher Nato contributions or even declaring Norway an enemy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Trump] is so unpredictable. I don\u2019t want to use the word \u2018fear\u2019 but there is a feeling that it could be a challenging situation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very very difficult to explain to Donald Trump or to many other countries in the world that it is a totally independent committee because they do not respect this kind of independence.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said if Mr Trump were to win, it would be the \u201cbiggest surprise in the history of the Nobel peace prize\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nina Gr\u00e6ger, the director of the Peace Research Institute Osl, believes the most likely candidates to win this year\u2019s peace prize include Sudan\u2019s Emergency Response Rooms, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he [Trump] clearly deserves credit for his efforts to end the war in Gaza, it is still too early to tell whether the peace proposal will be implemented and lead to lasting peace,\u201d Ms Gr\u00e6ger said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s retreat from international institutions, and his wish to take over Greenland<\/a> from the Kingdom of Denmark, a Nato ally, as well as infringements on basic democratic rights within his own country, do not align well with Nobel\u2019s will.\u201d – Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With hours to go until the announcement of this year\u2019s Nobel peace prize, Norwegian politicians were steeling themselves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,3761,69,6,71,3857,11,12,15,16,5,20500,11026,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-113711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-gaza-strip","14":"tag-hamas","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-hamas-conflict","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nobel-prize","24":"tag-norway","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-world","28":"tag-world-news","29":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}