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Originally Posted by Tim Cullis
On the broader issues, it's been said that EU initiatives have improved our lives in many ways and I wouldn't disagree with this, but you don't have to be a member of a trading group to adopt the changes that the group decides. Even better, you can pick and choose which trading group's policies to adopt.
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Do you have any evidence to support that? As I understand it, Norway is unable to choose which laws it can adopt or not, so long as it wants access to the common market, it must accept the laws and regulations which come with it. Without any vote, I might add.
Here is a former Norwegian finance minister talking about the 'Norwegian model' and Brexit;
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As an EEA member, we do not participate in decision-making in Brussels, but we loyally abide by Brussels’ decisions. We have incorporated approximately three-quarters of all EU legislative acts into Norwegian legislation – and counting. We have legally secured access to the single market, and we practise the free movement of people, goods, services and capital.
Norway is more closely integrated into many aspects of the EU than even some of the EU’s members. Our subscription to freedom of movement and our membership of the Schengen area means that Norway has even higher per capita immigration than Britain...
...Without [British] full European Union membership, however, it would have given up on having a say over EU policies: like Norway, it would have no vote and no presence when crucial decisions that affect the daily lives of its citizens are made.
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This idea that we'll be able to leave and pick and choose what we want still sounds deeply unrealistic to me.
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