without any real say about them. You pay into the EU budget.

As opposed to the miniscule say we would have as one of 28. It would hardly make much of difference if Germany or France wanted to push in a different direction, or if the budding dictatorship member state decides to veto.

And again, what is there to gain to trade our sovereignty for? It would also make essentially impossible to ever decouple from EU if it starts going a direction we don’t want to follow.

We budget ~5 billion dollar annually in foreign aid. The annual EEA “membership cost” between 2014 and 2021 was ~0,4 billion. The cost really isn’t much of a concern. And it’s not like you stop sending money to the EU once you become a member. E.g. Sweden is a net contributer to EU with 1,6 billion euros spent in 2023.

It’s pretty good for us other nordics

I’m happy for you, and not at all salty that we’ll never have Scandinavian union instead 😔

Norway is already part of EEA and Schengen. Giving up more of the democratic power of the people to politicians and their benefactors in Brussels who couldn’t give a toss about Norway, for no gain, sounds like great deal.

Not to mention the insane scope creep that EU is undergoing, it’s hardly just a single market union anymore.

The European Union is good thing, and it has done great thing for Europe and its members, but Norway isn’t in situation where we need to join.

God no, why in the world would we ever want that?