EU opponent and society debate participant Dag Seierstad is dead

EU opponent and social debate participant Dag Seierstad is dead Dag Seierstad is dead, 90 years old, who said no to the EU. For seven decades he was considered a soul of fire in the fight against Norwegian EU membership. Seierstad died on October 8, writes No to the EU on its website on Saturday. Seierstad grew up in Bjølsen in Oslo and was educated as a physicist, but devoted his life to political work in the Socialist People's Party (SF), later SV. He was a member of No to the EU's board from 1990 to 1995 and worked as an investigator in the organization from 1995 to 2003. Seierstad was also the organization's very first honorary member, an appointment he himself initially protested and called "nonsense." – The effort he has put into No to the EU is nevertheless of such a unique character that it deserves to be highlighted, said then-No to the EU leader Heming Olaussen when Seierstad was appointed honorary member in 2012. Seierstad wrote over 1000 columns about the EU and was part of the government-appointed Europe committee that delivered its investigation in 2012. His work was particularly strong in the labor movement, and in 2020 he received the Trondheim Conference's honorary prize. Seierstad was also a central board member of SV from 1995 to 2005. Seierstad is the father of the journalist and author Åsne Seierstad.