I don’t understand why Norway isn’t already in the EU.
Serbia, Belarus and Russia are a bad idea as their economies barely exist. We don’t want to be supporting them as they try to climb out of the economic black hole of their own creation.
Short answer: the Norwegians don’t want to. Why? I think it has to do with both their very high GDP per capita (which IIRC would make them pay large membership fees) and more importantly, the fact that they’d have to follow the EU’s common fisheries policy.
With the current arrangement they have to follow most of the EU’s laws but not the fishing ones.
I don’t understand why Norway isn’t already in the EU.
Serbia, Belarus and Russia are a bad idea as their economies barely exist. We don’t want to be supporting them as they try to climb out of the economic black hole of their own creation.
Short answer: the Norwegians don’t want to. Why? I think it has to do with both their very high GDP per capita (which IIRC would make them pay large membership fees) and more importantly, the fact that they’d have to follow the EU’s common fisheries policy.
With the current arrangement they have to follow most of the EU’s laws but not the fishing ones.
Agriculture too. We’d have to massively cut tariffs and subsidies and very few farms would survive the transition.
Same reason as Switzerland: they would gain little to nothing but pay stupid amounts of money because they’re very wealthy.