Towards Europe: The Story of a Reluctant Norway

ISBN-13: 9782807603721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 236 str.

Paal Frisvold

Opis

Towards Europe demonstrates how little Norwegians knew before the 1994 referendum about the EU Single Market and the European Economic Area (EEA). The book takes the reader behind the scenes of secret negotiations between the EU and Norway, giving an unprecedented insight into how the EEA works in practice.

Spis treści

Contents: Prologue: Heaven-sent: European policy - Norway in Europe - Europe-bound - Norway in the Europe of the future

O autorze

Paal J. Frisvold is a leading Norwegian expert on the EU and the EEA, with experience of working with the OECD and the EFTA, and as a campaigner for The Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian environmental NGO. Today, he is a writer, a political commentator and an adviser to Norwegian business, industry and civil society in Brussels. Paal Frisvold holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and Washington DC. He fenced for Norway in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984.