26/02/2007 8:25:08 pm
Gjenforening. This Friday in Oslo, I was a main speaker at a conference arranged by Unge Höyre and Minerva. The participants were the leaders on different levels of the youth branch of Höyre through the decades. This was apperently the first time they had such a reunion, or "gjenforening". I also attended the great dinner party afterwards, in a former military palace. I think I was the only person there without a background in Höyre. Fantastic, you learn so much about a party and a country that way. What they stand for, what they are proud of. One speaker was a former Foreign Minister of Norway. He had started his political career in 1933 - the year my grandmother was born. It gives you some perspective.