On adapting to or avoiding to the European Union; Are there good arguments for being there and not being there?
There are arguments for not being a members of the European Union, as the voting and referendum in 1972 and in 1994 have shown for Norway, and Norway is a small country, but maybe we should join the European Union, maybe we should not. And there are rules that are bad for the trades, and there are norms we can like and dislike when being here, and the philosophy is whether we should join, or whether we are should be alone.
Maybe, the greatest trouble for some firms in the Norway by being in EU, is the open accessibility to the internal market and to the extended possibilities for our products in Norway, and maybe we should do these things, maybe we should not, and the most trouble is the competition on prices for the fish and the farmers' products, and if we cannot compete in natural ways to be great and to win more market shares and for selling more of our products, people will not join the European Union, and EU is an institution and we should always use the competence we are having when being here.
So, EU is giving advantages, and we join a larger membership and several more people opening up for competition and more trade when we are here, but the extended accessibilities to the markets, are giving Norway more possibilites for buying products from our nations around us, and for nations being engaged with doing cooperation and security and politics with us when we are here, and we can sell our products several more places, and hence the national and international trade and with many of all kinds of variants are with us with their ramifications while we are there when we are here where we are.
Anne Enger Lahnstein was in competition with our earlier prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland in the last referendum we had in Norway earlier and that was in 1994, but you know, such things as these are about giving dark and bad images of each other, and for sometimes claiming something without having the good foundations and arguments and market arguments for doing like we are doing, and the main things for Norway for being outside EU are probably that we are afraid for our own business life and trade, and for extending the people to the whole Europe, but there are much fear about ghosts here, and maybe we cannot find these ghosts when planning and doing implementation with processes and outcomes that can be done in Europe of taking decisions in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg when we are here, and there are just humans and systems of differents kinds, and all meetings on several levels, and we are making the life to people better and stronger, and we are standing strong together, and stronger than being alone as a candle in the wind, and we should just find which standpoints there are, and why we should do such that we are doing and will continue to do in the present and in the future.
So, is bigger better? Or should we have the same extension of the EU to any times anyhwere, and maybe it also can be sensible to be smaller, and we should measure the strategies and the market effects and general and specific effects that are going on when we are in EU related to being in other cooperations or just standing alone with the hat in hand like Norwegians are doing when they do not quite know while knowing as we are knowing, and we can tell each other more than we can know, and we can just stand with the same decisions as ever and forever before, or we can throw away some of the cooperations if these things are making things better and more updated to 2025.
So, there are surely positive and negative effects of economic and social affairs when we are here inside the European Union, and also being outside, and we should know which effects are actual and relevant for any country wishing and trying to join the union, and we should know what we are doing with the standpoints we are taking, and much competence is just making questions and answers in larger extent than none, and these things can be dirty and dark, or they can be wanting and bright.
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