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I also wonder why Norway wants that model?

• gonvaled 10y ago
  Actually, Norway itself mentioned that their deal is worse that EU membership: the politicians would prefer to join the EU, but this is not an easy sell to the electorate, so they do not bother.
• jcranmer 10y ago
  Most likely fisheries. The EU's fishery policy is traditionally held as horrible, and Norway and Iceland both have relative large fishing economies and better-maintained fisheries than the EU CFP.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
    One wonders if Norway could join the EU and get special exceptions to the CFP.
• Scarblac 10y ago
  As far as I understand it sort of happened -- Norway was in the EEA because it was trying to become a full EU member, and then later it decided it didn't want to.