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International journalists have hit back at Norway's Progress Party as it seeks to convince them not to compare it to far-right parties such as the Sweden Democrats or France's Front National.
"You are welcome to hate us, but hate us for the right reasons," the party's deputy leader Ketil Solvik-Olsen said at a press conference called on Tuesday to convince foreign correspondents that the party is not anti-immigration, anti-foreigner or anti-Islamic.
But Tony Paterson from the UK's Independent newspaper, whose election report has been criticised by the party for accentuating its links to far-Right terrorist Anders Breivik, told Norway's TV2 channel that he did not regret the tone of his article.