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New EU-friendly leadership for Norway
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It's 31 years ago. The people who were of voting age at that time are 49 or older now. The average age in Norway is 41. The average Norwegian isn't old enough to have voted on the EU even once, much less twice.
They did not. We are in the EEC and Schengen, but not in the EU.
Your anecdote is just that. The Finns and Swedes had a sudden change of heart about NATO after Putin invaded. Norwegians might similarly have a change of heart about NATO and the EU if NATO starts rotting at the head.
EØS is essentially the same as joining, just worse
Why mix a defensive alliance with what is mutating into "United States of Europe", those are vastly different kind of deals. You're not giving up any serious form of autonomy by joining NATO.
I tend to agree; I think the decision to not be able to vote was a bad one.
Norway is a sparsely populated and poorly defended country with a lot of natural resources and a long, often strategic, coastline. We're better off being allied to countries that share our ideals, in a union that has actually brought peace to the continent, than being gobbled up by some other superpower that believes in one or another variant of ethnic supremacy.
NATO is to a large degree "USA with friends". An EU defence is looking more and more needed.
Eh, Russia could have taken parts of Norway back in the days if they wanted. It's clear they are more interested in the parts of Europe they consider "theirs". Their hostility towards us nowadays is likely because they view us an American army base. I'm not against NATO, but I think we would be mostly fine without it too.
It's getting a bit off-topic but NATO without USA is still functional. The only serious threat in Europe would be from Russia, which can't even take on Ukraine. And again, it's far different from what EU is. USA deciding to ban X or enforce Y has no bearing on the other NATO members.