Femi Oluwole and Lara Spirit interview experts in Norway on relationship with EU OFOCBrexit
But would that work for the UK? If you threw in a customs union, it would solve the Irish border problem, which would allow us to leave the EU without damaging the peace process. But 52 per cent of voters wanted to leave the EU, primarily to have more control over their laws. Norway has objectively less. The UK has 73 of the 750 members of the European parliament, giving it three times the voting power of the average EU country.
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