The fear that makes Støre and Solberg hesitate on the EU issue

After the 1994 referendum, EU supporters were plagued with much discussion about what went wrong. One explanation was that the Norwegian diplomats, who were negotiating with the EU about the terms of membership, made a mistake on the very last night. Norway’s accession agreement with the EU was essentially a done deal. All the difficult issues about agriculture, fish, the wine monopoly, environmental policy, currency and control over oil and gas…