La Norvegia è sempre più svantaggiata al di fuori dell’UE, afferma il ministro degli Esteri

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> Norway is increasingly suffering by staying out of the EU as Donald Trump’s tariff wars and Brexit make trade policy more important, the country’s foreign minister and his main rival said ahead of Monday’s parliamentary election.
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> Norway is part of the EU’s single market through its membership of the European Economic Area (EEA) but is not part of the bloc’s trade policy or customs union after twice voting No to joining in referendums.
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> “We are acutely aware that the delta between EU membership and EEA membership is increasing,” said Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s foreign minister. His centre-left Labour party is the slight favourite ahead of the vote but polls remain too close to call.
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> Ine Eriksen Søreide, a former foreign minister who would likely regain her position if her centre-right opposition party wins the most seats, said: “Everyone sees that our connection with the EU gives us a lot of vulnerabilities, because we are increasingly on the outside of everything we want to be on the inside of.”
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> Both the Labour party and Søreide’s Conservatives want Norway to join the EU but neither want to call for a new referendum imminently, as opinion polls show most voters reject membership of the bloc.
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> She stressed that the cost of not being in the EU was increasing “by the day”, adding: “That has to do with everything from Brexit to the war [in Ukraine] to the pandemic to the refugee crisis — which changes the EU fundamentally in how they work, and how they work with third countries.”
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> Norwegian opposition politicians have criticised the government for getting worse tariff terms than the EU with the US, despite Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre’s friendly meeting with Trump in the White House in April.
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> Norway is the closest non-member country to the EU and its biggest supplier of gas after replacing Russia following the latter’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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> Norway’s two-party coalition collapse in January underscored how divisive the EU remains, when the junior partner, the rural Centre party, refused to back the entry of various EU energy directives. The Labour party passed them with the help of other parties.
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> But energy policy is likely to remain a thorn in the side of Norway’s relationship with the EU in the next parliament. Støre said this week that if he led a new government Norway would not implement the remaining five parts of the EU’s clean energy package.
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> Barth Eide said Norway — a big electricity, oil and gas provider — wanted more input on the regulations. He added that the current government was trying to speed up implementation of other EU directives and regulations and ‘‘demonstrate our strict adherence to the principles of the EEA”.
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> An additional complication in the Norway-EU relationship is likely to come next year and in 2027 when two old electricity interconnectors to Denmark come up for renewal.
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> Sylvi Listhaug, leader of the rightwing populist Progress party which is currently second in the polls, said that she did not want to renew them because Denmark — an EU member state — was so reliant on renewable energy such as wind power.
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> She added that Norway provided the EU with about 60 times more gas than electricity so she would prioritise the former for the 27-country bloc and try to keep power prices low in Norway.
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> “If we export so much to Europe that the prices are high at home, that gives us problems,’’ she said. ‘‘We are a cold country so we need to have electricity.”
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I don’t feel like having Fremskittspartiet become a larger part of EU.

Ive never understood why its so hard for the Norwegian or Swedish government to put a tax on electricity exports. This would reduce the incentive for their energy companies to export to other countries + would generate revenue to subsidise the electricity price at home.

Looks like a win win to me, the only ones losing would be the shareholders of the electricity companies as their profits would decrease.

We need them, they need us. I know about the failed union with the Danes, but get over it. The timing is not right for any division. We are under attack.

a disadvantage that they themselves caused by implementing too many EU directives and regulations.

so.. it looks like a cozy retirement on the french riviera is off the table for these politicians

Cries in Norwegian oil and gas money, selling into a market that was dependent on Russian oil and gas for decades and will mow pay premium for your oil and gas…
Yeah, Norway, the Qatar of the north really is at a disadvantage.

Somehow doubt norway actually needs eu