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@hobs Norway is not part of EU. ;)
@dalstroka
Oh wow, had no idea! Thank you.
Norway follows many (most?) EU-regulations through being part of EFTA (which honours GDPR) and Nordic fellowship (eg. synchronisation of legislation within the block, free travel and ability to work - far more extensive than what EU offers). When many of the other members joined EU, they kind of took Norway with them.
The important differences to outright-membership largely boil down to fishing rights and not being represented with franchise at Brussels.
Further, shutting this "back door" would be a crisis comparable to Brexit, so it's unlikely anyone would push for it.
For outsiders the differences between EFTA+Norden and EU are pedantic, so it's understandable that you didn't know better :)
@iju
Thank you for the explanation! #TIL
My grandparents told me stories about how their parents and grandparents pretended to be Swedish when they emigrated from Norway to Gotland (Sweden) and later to the US. Back then, Norway and Sweden weren't as cozy as they are now :-).
@dalstroka
You're welcome! Talking about this stuff is a great personal and professional interest to me, which I can't entertain as often as I would like! So thank you, too!
Further, I'm going to guess the problem with your grangrans was that the "voluntary" personal union between Sweden and Norway in the 19th century was a bit too "cozy", and not that voluntary.
Norwegian stéréotypes were also vastly different before oil.