Carola Rackete, who recently gave up her seat as MEP and returned to left-wing activism, has crashed a Norwegian TV broadcast, comparing fossil fuel companies with drug dealers.
She was booed by the crowd when she yelled out her speech and was escorted out of the studio.
Rackete told on her Instagram that she was in Norway to join the protests of Extinction Rebellion, the radical climate activist group known for their disruptive protests.
“We delivered our message and left because watching the debatte [sic] would have been a waste of time.
She disrupted a Norwegian election programme, with the country being headed for the ballot box on September 8, and lambasted Norway’s energy policies.
Just before the debate began, she stood up from the crowd showing that the government would be judged by what it had done against “the future of humanity”.
“You are the biggest producers of oil and gas in Europe, and in the whole world, you are number eight,” she yelled while the crowd was jeering at her.
“You are responsible and have an environmental debt to pay.”
She went on to scream that “you are like drug dealers keeping the other European countries addicted” and “Stop selling us gas because we need to organise the energy transition.”
Carola Rackete wird bei ihrer lächerlichen Schimpftirade, welche sie vom Handy ablesen muss, vom norwegischen Publikum ausgebuht.
Danach flog sie aus dem Studio. pic.twitter.com/pthEOrsCO7
— 🅲🅾🆇🆇 (@queru_lant) August 13, 2025
Rackete’s disruptive action reportedly occurred before the recording of the party chairman debate of the public broadcaster NRK on August 11.
The German activist had previously accused the Norwegian energy company Equinor, which is 67 per cent state owned, of greenwashing, the deceptive practice of misrepresenting the environmental impact to appear more sustainable than it truly is, because it continued to operate fossil fuel projects.
Olivia Søtvik, one of the protesters, told Norwegian outlet Nettavisen that they took action because they believe there is not enough focus on climate change.
“It can’t wait until the next election campaign; we are in a crisis right now. Everyone agrees that oil will not last forever, so we need a plan. And it should be scary for most people that we don’t have a plan,” Søtvik said.
Carola Rackete resigned from the European Parliament in early July, after having served for just one year.
Her seat went to Martin Günther, a German politician from Die Linke, part of The Left Group in the EP.
Before politics she had risen to fame as an open border activist, shipping migrants over the Mediterranean with an NGO boat, at one point she even rammed a vessel of the Italian coast guard that tried to stop her.
Rackete also made headlines by calling for the climate movement Fridays for Future to transition from “symbolic protest” to “direct action”.
Most recently, she has also appeared in pro-Palestinian campaigns, including an unsuccessful attempt to reach the Gaza Strip from Egypt.
Carola Rackete, a German MEP known for her activism regarding NGO migrant vessels, has announced her resignation from the European Parliament. https://t.co/NFWKXzPLBY
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) July 10, 2025
