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[netsharc]

Don't they prefer to be not in the EU, because they can keep their oil to themselves? (AFAIK if they're in the EU then EU oil companies can ask to drill in their territory: https://www.politico.eu/article/of-crustaceans-and-oil-the-c... ).

So maybe it's better to have no deciding voice but be able to keep all the money.

[tyfon → netsharc]

Oil companies can still get licenses and drill in Norway, they just have to pay taxes (80%) and that won't change.

The people decided in two referendums that they do not want to be in the EU, but the politicians did not accept it and created the EAA/EØS which basically puts us in EU in all but name with very limited power to influence what happens there. It was not democratically done.

I am pro EU, but it was the wrong way to do it.

[philbarr → tyfon]

Hey, and we in the UK are going pretty much exactly the same way!

[repolfx → tyfon]

Yep, this is how it always goes.