Norwegian foreign minister says EU more important than ever for Norway

Norwegian foreign minister says EU more important than ever for Norway

Norway should work to cooperate further with the EU as the Nordic country’s relationship with the bloc is ‘becoming even more important than before’, foreign minister Espen Barth Eide told the Norwegian parliament on Tuesday.

Eide: – The EEA Agreement cannot be renegotiated The EEA Agreement cannot be renegotiated. It is tempting to offer something that does not exist, believes Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Labour Party). In his statement on the EU and the EEA in the Storting on Tuesday, Eide emphasized that the EEA Agreement must be fenced off and cooperation with the EU must be strengthened. – A new multipolar world order is in the making – not to say disorde…

All too often, the EEA Agreement is presented as a series of obligations "imposed" on Norway.