You can tell how potentially damaging Norway's status is to the europhile cause by the amount of attention being paid to it. If it wasn't quite so dangerous, they wouldn't all be harping on about it, from Business for New Europe, to Barroso, Open Europe, Sir Stephen Wall, Cameron and The Observer.

And now, the very latest in this long line of naysayers is no less than Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Eide, who is urging the UK to assess the advantages of staying in the European Union, rather than consider leaving.

Although, as we know, Norway is not in the EU but has "access" to the single market, Eide says Oslo has "limited scope for influence", telling BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend that, "We are not at the table when decisions are made".

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Following on from the earlier piece where Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Eide tells us that membership of the EEA is "regulation without representation", further evidence comes via a reader of the full extent of this lying propaganda in the from of the EFTA website.

This is, of course, the organisation to which Norway belongs and through which it becomes a member of the EEA and thus participates in the Single Market (or "internal market" as they prefer to call it). And, on the page to which we link, we see reference to "EEA EFTA Comments", followed by this text:
One of the ways in which the EEA EFTA States participate in shaping EC legislation, i.e. when the Commission is drawing up legislative proposals, is by submitting comments on important policy issues. The comments are elaborated by working groups, cleared by the relevant subcommittees, endorsed by the Standing Committee and officially noted by the Joint Committee after they have been sent to the relevant services in the Commission and the European Parliament.

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Edited by user 24 December 2012 12:52:12(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Methinks, that they [EUphiliacs] doth protesteth overly much.

I can think of a million and one reasons to leave the Brussels empire of skanks, I am hard pressed [genuinely] to think of one solid excuse for tarrying any longer.


If it was such a good deal and that; Britain remaining in the EU was a great boon for the nation - why the need for all the cant and bluster?

I'll tell yer, if Britain left the EU, it would be something akin to the keystone being taken out of the arch.


And with Kathryn Cooper, averring in the Sunday Times - the Greek 'problem' is dissipating.............everything is hunky-dory in EU-shire - try telling that to the families scavenging for food in the trash can of Athens - if we stay - that is around the corner for us......................think on.

Reading your posts on this, it would seem that they have more influence than we do, as I recall the EU acts on our behalf not for our interest. I back your posts against the known EU untruths.
O/T, May I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Prosperous and Healthy New Year.

Sorry all, called away for food, so stealth edit in order. My Christmas message above is for all writers, moderators and posters on this excellent site. Thanks for all the information and keep up the good work.

Edited by user 24 December 2012 12:18:08(UTC)  | Reason: missing para.

Indeed it does, by remaining outside they've managed to retain it.

His countrymen have been asked, considered the implications, and declined. We haven't been asked, the implications concealed and just told.

This sort of specific rebuttal (perhaps in an abridged form) is exactly what we will need when the referendum comes. Is there any centralised collection, along the lines of the myths section on the main site?

I worry that those few outters who are permitted on the airwaves will be unarmed.

Simple clear explanantion. Thanks Richard. One does wonder UKIP do not have this at their fingertips ah well

A Happy Christmas to one and all !

I have no doubt that the BBC "reporting" is simply because they do not realize the "news" they broadcast is false. No agenda on their part. Nothing to see here, folks! Move along now...

-49 deg' C in province of China and -42 reported in Xingjiang province, Novosibirsk averaging [24/7] last week at -35 deg C, that's a whole lot of global warming, yessiree.
We must thank our lucky stars, that, the wind is in the west, warm 'n' wet is better than ice and snow. I give thanks to CH, in our first house didn't have CH and my mother and father came from homes with open coal fires in the upstairs bedrooms.

Soon, all things going to plan and with the world turning towards much harder winters. Britain energy generation is going into reverse 'green mode'. It's all so unnecessary but the EU dictates and we do follow, remember every time you switch on a gloomy light bulb or sit in a pub with miserable and cold electric light from CFls - this is the new way forwards.

Thank God it ain't cold, cold and no heating is the way Brussels wants it.

Just one more among hundreds of thousands.. a [vital for our health] reason, that the country must expedite its exit from the slave empire:

out and out NOW.

Update: Moscow at -25 deg'C Man made warming at its height.

Edited by user 26 December 2012 14:49:24(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Infinitely superior in every way to my mind - yep Norway's way is the [interim until we sever all links 'cept trade] way.