Maybe in your head. Latest polls in Norway show higher approval (46.4 %) for becoming a member than disapproval (41,6 %).
Source: http://www.welt.de/data/2005/03/02/554251.html
My
: by 2008 we will have them in the EU.One thing the Germans and French do have in common, sir, is avariciousness.
As you might, or might not, know, Norway is not a part of the European "Union," preferring to remain Norwegian, rather than becoming some sort of generic "European" as defined by Paris, Brussels, and Berlin.
As you might, or might not, know, ever since the mid-1970s, all governments of Norway--right, center, left--have carefully and scrupulously put away all the petroleum revenues from the North Sea oil, into a sort of massive "savings account" for when the oil runs out.
(This is one of the reasons, it appears, taxes are so high in Norway--to support their social spending, while conserving and investing the oil revenues.)
Well, Old Europe really really really wants Norway with them--but it's not because Norwegians are great people to have among oneself, but more so because they want that savings-account, because Old Europe is bankrupt.
: by 2008 we will have them in the EU.