No, I think that having more standardisation is key. Just join as a full EU member, and everything will be easier. Why bothering having your own currency when we can all have the euro?
Im mostly all for joining the eu, but that is my main concern. In a time where war is more likely than in a long time i do not want to have what little agriculture we have be destroyed in the name of economic efficiency. Fuck that i dont want to starve. Eu should recognize the importance of local production of critical products in case supoly chains break down (especially for us who are separated from the mainland and could be more easily blockaded off by russia in case of war).
Let us keep these things and the no-side would lose some of their most important arguments…
The thought of Russia trying to blockade all of Norway’s coast had me chuckle. It would be a hilarious clusterfuck and they’d need to “retreat as an act of goodwill” or something, to the bottom of the sea very fast
First: regardless of their capabilities it is still easier to block off supply routes from mainland europe to norway than eg between germany and france.
Second: lets perhaps prepare for a worst case situation and not make arrogant assumptions of their capabilities 5, 10, 15 years down the road? If we kill off our agriculture now to join the eu, we cant simply rebuild it if russia (or someone else) suddenly poses a real threat to accomplish such a blockade in ten years. And at this rate i would not rule out that it would be china or even the us doing the blockading - the world is a-changing, and assumptions is the mother of all fuckups.
No, I think that having more standardisation is key. Just join as a full EU member, and everything will be easier. Why bothering having your own currency when we can all have the euro?
Because their coins have holes in them and it’s awesome.
But the fishing industry and agriculture would be wrecked
Edit: we would have to give up fishing rights to the EU, which will not be a good thing for smaller fishing communities on our coast.
Our agriculture would have to compete with large scale EU-producers, which do not have to deal with harsh winters like we do.
Just downvoting instead of sound arguments is very productive /s
Im mostly all for joining the eu, but that is my main concern. In a time where war is more likely than in a long time i do not want to have what little agriculture we have be destroyed in the name of economic efficiency. Fuck that i dont want to starve. Eu should recognize the importance of local production of critical products in case supoly chains break down (especially for us who are separated from the mainland and could be more easily blockaded off by russia in case of war).
Let us keep these things and the no-side would lose some of their most important arguments…
The thought of Russia trying to blockade all of Norway’s coast had me chuckle. It would be a hilarious clusterfuck and they’d need to “retreat as an act of goodwill” or something, to the bottom of the sea very fast
First: regardless of their capabilities it is still easier to block off supply routes from mainland europe to norway than eg between germany and france.
Second: lets perhaps prepare for a worst case situation and not make arrogant assumptions of their capabilities 5, 10, 15 years down the road? If we kill off our agriculture now to join the eu, we cant simply rebuild it if russia (or someone else) suddenly poses a real threat to accomplish such a blockade in ten years. And at this rate i would not rule out that it would be china or even the us doing the blockading - the world is a-changing, and assumptions is the mother of all fuckups.