Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK - On Autonomy and Wriggle Room

This book examines Norway’s affiliation to the EU, and systematically assesses the potential suitability of this arrangement for the UK as a viable EU affiliation post-Brexit. Furthermore, it asks how much autonomy, and room of maneuver, do tightly integrated non-member states have under this arrangement. As such it also provides an assessment of what it would mean for the UK of adopting the Norway model. The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) leaves considerable uncertainty. It contains transitory elements, there will be implementation reviews, and there may be many more bilateral and multilateral agreements before the trade relationship is fully defined. The situates these analyses within the framework of the broader European context. What does the in-depth assessment of Norway’s close EU affiliation tell us about the post-Brexit European political order, and what does the Norway model still offer to the UK as its new relationship with the EU develops over time. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, Norwegian politics, British politics, European integration and more broadly to European studies and international relations.