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Erna Solberg said while her country is happy to accept migrants they must not expect Norway will pay them any benefits if are refuse work. The Scandinavian country has kept maintained a hard stance on the European migrant crisis and successfully challenged European Union migrant quotas, which enabled them to maintain the regular border checks introduced at the beginning of this year, and designed to limit the flow of irregular migrants. EU law suggests members of the bloc can only bring in emergency frontier controls for an initial period of two months, which can be extended to a maximum of six months in extreme circumstances. Speaking on Euronews’ Global Conversation, Ms Solberg said: “It is part of our normal educational system that you are discussing why people are fleeing from countries, what is the convention what is the responsibilities we have, this is all part of the school curriculum in Norway.

EURONEWS•GETTY The Norwegian PM demanded migrants work despite any religious beliefs

Norwegian society won't pay you benefits if you are refusing to work for religious reasons Erna Solberg

“There is also a clear view that if you move and get refuge, you have to live by Norwegian standards, you can’t come and think you live in your home country when it comes to women’s rights, not to be puzzled if you see two men kiss on the street, because there are gay people in our countries and it is normal, it’s part of our system." Upon being challenged about religious differences between her country and that of arriving migrants, she rebuked: “I do not think it is a complex issue that if you are going to come to country. “You have to work to sustain a living, you cannot say no to jobs like working in a restaurant where they will serve pork or alcohol. “You cannot expect that the Norwegian society will pay you benefits if you are refusing to work for religious reasons.

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“There are too lower of migrants women working in Norway, we know that some reasons are they have a lot of children, so that is work in itself. “But sometimes it is also because they make some demands that make it more difficult for them to get a job and sometimes it is because their husbands don’t like to see them get too involved in Norwegian society, because then they get a taste of freedom of women in our society, so there is also some type of patriarchy in this.” Ms Solberg added that around 3,100 refugees are being allowed to make home in Noway as they continue to participate in helping solve the humanitarian crisis. The Scandinavian country is a part of the Schengen Zone, which was created to allow citizens of EU member countries to travel freely without passport checks to other nations within the area.