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The Norwegian PM said to Britain back then “don’t repeat our mistake. We need to, in practice, follow all the EU’s rules and don’t get any say in it”


That's because the PM's party brokered that half-way deal with EU against the will of the people, after they had voted no to EU for the second time[1].

Not saying some of our export companies aren't enjoying the access to EU, but the people was against it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Norwegian_European_Union_...


Since 1994 the will of the people had a lot of time to express itself...


Polls have consistently been favoring No to EU side since.


> PM's party brokered that half-way deal with EU against the will of the people, after they had voted no to EU for the second time

what polls have to do with it? if the will of the people was against the eu deal, they should've voted against, they had 30 years to do it. norway is a democracy, right?


Important to clarify: IIRC that comment was about Norway's EEA membership. The UK is not an EEA member.


Except in areas of fishing and agriculture. Especially fishing they really care about, just like iceland.




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