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Unfortunately, the debates often concerned little more than narrow ethnic prejudices. According to anti-Marketers, EEC membership would allow "dirty Italians" to steal Norwegian jobs and "rich Germans" to grab Norwegian land. As the election approached, windows were smashed and radio aerials ripped from cars bearing Ja til EF-yes to EEC-bumper stickers...
...other side of the issue, businessmen, journalists, trade unionists, top civil servants and Norway's two major political parties pushed for membership. More than 23% of Norwegian trade is with Common Market countries, and outside the EEC Norway will find new tariff barriers for its exports of fish products, paper and metal alloys. In a belated attempt to curb anti-EEC momentum, Socialist Premier Trygve Bratelli, 62, who had risked his reputation and millions of government kroner on pro-EEC propaganda, threatened to resign if the EEC was spurned...
After the vote last week, Bratelli's threat became a reality. The diverse elements that combined to defeat EEC membership now face the difficult task of forming a caretaker government at a time when the country's economic future is uncertain. Norwegian kroner fell on foreign exchange markets, and some prices on the Oslo stock exchange registered their largest drop since World War II. Jubilant anti-Marketers danced in victory, but depressed industrialists predicted that it would take at least a year to negotiate a preferential tariff agreement with...
Despite Norway's decision, the magnetism exerted by the EEC remains strong. Some future Norwegian government may bid for membership again. Much depends on Denmark's referendum this week. Danish Premier Krag was prepared for any eventuality. On the day following the EEC vote, Krag must deliver the annual state-of-the-nation speech. This year Krag has prepared two speeches, one assuming Danish rejection of the EEC, the other in case his countrymen vote yes to Europe...
...NORWEGIAN coalition developed? The far left certainly hopes so it would like to see the momentum continue to the extent that Norway withdraw its NATO membership standing then either alone or within a closer partnership with Sweden Others in the anti-EEC coalition most certainly do not wish to see this happen Ideally, they wish access to the Common Market no less advantageous for Norway's industrial exports than would have been possible as a Member, but with firm Norwegian control of agricultural trade and with no concessions whatsoever to the Treaty of Rome...