http://www.myrstad.eu/veto-to-or-not-to-be-for-norway/ Norway, EU and the World Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:32:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.myrstad.eu/veto-to-or-not-to-be-for-norway/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Finn Myrstad » Blog Archive » Will Norway join the EU after Iceland? Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:19:12 +0000 http://www.myrstad.eu/2008/04/06/veto-to-or-not-to-be-for-norway/#comment-116 [...] The one EU issue that could become the “hot potato” in the elections is the very belated discussion on the data-retention directive (adopted by the EU 15 March 2006), which has been causing wide spread debate in the blogosphere for over a year. Now the campaign against the directive is becoming more and more vocal as the elections approach, and (especially young) politicians from all political strands are speaking out against it. The difference with this “veto”-campaign from earlier ones (such as the one against the services directive) is that some of its loudest voices are normally considered very pro-European. This gives the campaign much more strength, as previous campaigns often have been seen as a way for the eurosceptics to rid themselves of the EEA-agreement. For more infromation, read my previous blog-entry on the topic. [...] [...] The one EU issue that could become the “hot potato” in the elections is the very belated discussion on the data-retention directive (adopted by the EU 15 March 2006), which has been causing wide spread debate in the blogosphere for over a year. Now the campaign against the directive is becoming more and more vocal as the elections approach, and (especially young) politicians from all political strands are speaking out against it. The difference with this “veto”-campaign from earlier ones (such as the one against the services directive) is that some of its loudest voices are normally considered very pro-European. This gives the campaign much more strength, as previous campaigns often have been seen as a way for the eurosceptics to rid themselves of the EEA-agreement. For more infromation, read my previous blog-entry on the topic. [...]

]]> http://www.myrstad.eu/veto-to-or-not-to-be-for-norway/comment-page-1/#comment-7 The EU-directive that could blow up the Norwegian Government » Finn Myrstad Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:41:10 +0000 http://www.myrstad.eu/2008/04/06/veto-to-or-not-to-be-for-norway/#comment-7 [...] The crippled EU-debate in Norway has left politicians without the guts to ask the obvious and most important question: what role do we want to play in Europe? Instead, they have reduced the debate to evolve around the past EU Directives, such as the ‘Services Directive‘ and the ‘Data Retention directive‘. [...] [...] The crippled EU-debate in Norway has left politicians without the guts to ask the obvious and most important question: what role do we want to play in Europe? Instead, they have reduced the debate to evolve around the past EU Directives, such as the ‘Services Directive‘ and the ‘Data Retention directive‘. [...]

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