Norway's new Minister of Fisheries and Coastal affairs is ready to fight to get rid of EU anti-dumping measures, to struggle to lower the import duties in Asia, and to make war over fishing and black markets. Her vision is to guard the lights in the houses along the Norwegian coast. Failing to notice that Norway changed its Minister of Fisheries last autumn, you would have to be colour-blind. The former Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, conservative Svein Ludvigsen (59) often dressed in darkgrey before entering the scene to speak about liberalisation of the seafood industry Structuring the coastal fisheries into fewer, but stronger units was one of his favourites. His Labour successor, Helga Pedersen, was only 32 when she dressed up in hertraditional Sami costume to meet the press for the first time. The dressing up marked her roots from the indigenous Sami people in the North, but the young minister with the firm glance would have been able to draw attention even without colourful drapery or being a member of Prime Minister Stoltenberg's government. And her first statements and moves were sufficient to indicate that a change in the politics were to be expected Nine months later it should be possible to ask what she has got out of it.
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