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Stine Bosse, who was elected to the European Parliament for the Moderates, is resigning from her position on the board of the Norwegian bank DNB. The bank writes in a stock exchange announcement, as does Stine Bosse herself on LinkedIn. She wants to focus on her job as a member of the European Parliament. “There must be no question of my loyalty to the Danish voters who have voted for me, which is why I have informed DNB that I wish to resign from DNB’s board today,” writes Stine Bosse.
In recent days, both Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, who sits in the European Parliament for the Socialists People’s Party, and Anders Vistisen, who is elected to parliament for the Danish People’s Party, have been critical of Stine Bosse continuing to sit on DNB’s board to Ekstra Bladet. “I think it is a general problem when politicians simultaneously hold paid positions for companies that engage in lobbying,” wrote Kira Marie Peter-Hansen in a text message to Ekstra Bladet on Tuesday.
DNB engages in lobbying, including in the environmental area in the EU. Following the election on June 9, Stine Bosse, among other things, secured a seat on the committee for the environment, public health, and food safety in the parliament. Stine Bosse had originally planned to resign from DNB’s board in the spring of 2025, when her mandate expired. She was elected to the board in April 2023 for a two-year term.
Bosse has previously defended her decision to stay on the Norwegian bank’s board. On Tuesday, she wrote on LinkedIn that she had resigned from the boards she was involved in except for the Norwegian bank. She pointed out that she had informed the bank that she would not run for re-election at the next general meeting in the spring of 2025.
“If you want business people in politics, you must accept that we have a past in various boards – it is our strength and our contribution, so for example, the European Parliament can consist of different backgrounds and competencies,” she wrote on LinkedIn on Tuesday.