So the EU takes no cut whatsoever on what Sweden makes on their exports? I doubt that. Some is obvious, but how much? What does the regular Swede stand to gain from it?
If I remember right there were talks of the EU imposing tariffs on Norwegian seafood due to a disagreement on who could fish where on our borders in the North Sea and Skagerrak. I didn’t hear more about if after reading a news story last year so I don’t know how it was resolved. But this is one thing I’ll have to look into before making a choice if I’m against or for a full membership.
What happens to our fossil fuel exports? Will we keep complete sovereignty or will there be a deal where Norway is forced to share? For example, look what sharing Norwegian produced hydroelectricity with Europe has done to the cost of electricity. Granted, the Norwegian government has made some serious overhead by selling green energy to the EU and buying cheaper energy back. But Norwegians have seen a ridiculous increase on electricity costs also, people don’t like that.
Another factor is Russia. We are territorial neighbors in the arctic and have a fairly brittle agreement about a very, very strategic island called Svalbard. Not to mention fishing territory in the north and arctic sea. We’re obviously a founding member of NATO, but will a EU membership create more tension with Putin?
We are facing issues that we have to have faith will be resolved in the best interest of all parties without us losing more than we bargained for.
All this being said, I’m not completely opposed to becoming a member. I’m just reserved.
i mean they don’t take a cut directly, but the membership fees are proportional to GDP. some countries get back more money than they pay.
the electricity thing is different, and annoying. electricity doesn’t care about markets, it just goes wherever. the nordics still have europe’s cheapest electricity by far, but as long as the grids are connected together it’s all just one big machine and trying to treat it as a segmented market just leads to problems. it’s an abstraction.
So the EU takes no cut whatsoever on what Sweden makes on their exports? I doubt that. Some is obvious, but how much? What does the regular Swede stand to gain from it?
If I remember right there were talks of the EU imposing tariffs on Norwegian seafood due to a disagreement on who could fish where on our borders in the North Sea and Skagerrak. I didn’t hear more about if after reading a news story last year so I don’t know how it was resolved. But this is one thing I’ll have to look into before making a choice if I’m against or for a full membership.
What happens to our fossil fuel exports? Will we keep complete sovereignty or will there be a deal where Norway is forced to share? For example, look what sharing Norwegian produced hydroelectricity with Europe has done to the cost of electricity. Granted, the Norwegian government has made some serious overhead by selling green energy to the EU and buying cheaper energy back. But Norwegians have seen a ridiculous increase on electricity costs also, people don’t like that.
Another factor is Russia. We are territorial neighbors in the arctic and have a fairly brittle agreement about a very, very strategic island called Svalbard. Not to mention fishing territory in the north and arctic sea. We’re obviously a founding member of NATO, but will a EU membership create more tension with Putin?
We are facing issues that we have to have faith will be resolved in the best interest of all parties without us losing more than we bargained for.
All this being said, I’m not completely opposed to becoming a member. I’m just reserved.
i mean they don’t take a cut directly, but the membership fees are proportional to GDP. some countries get back more money than they pay.
the electricity thing is different, and annoying. electricity doesn’t care about markets, it just goes wherever. the nordics still have europe’s cheapest electricity by far, but as long as the grids are connected together it’s all just one big machine and trying to treat it as a segmented market just leads to problems. it’s an abstraction.