Brexit Brings Absolutely ‘No Benefits’ — the View From Norway
- Norway is looking through old trade deals to pre-empt Brexit
- Barnier has told Norway it will be kept close in Brexit talks
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Norwegian diplomats are scouring the archives for old trade agreements that could once again spring to life once the U.K. leaves the European Union.
Much is at stake for the Nordic nation, which sends 20 percent of its exports and about $5 billion worth of gas each year to the U.K. As a member of the European Free Trade Association and an EU outsider, policy makers in Oslo will be forced to look in from the outside when the U.K. starts talks on its divorce and then attempts to forge a new relationship with Europe.