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...this latter group which the leadership of organized labor, as recently as a few months ago, was confident of bringing into the fold. The Norwegian worker in the past has invariably sided with the leaderships of the Labor Party and the Confederation of Labor. In the Common Market case, in spite of the most intense education campaign in the history of either, the effort failed...
...Oslo. They had to defend an administrative structure in Brussels which decidedly is not democratic. They were compromised again and again by the interpretations in Norway of such routine EC dynamics as the jousting over this autumn's summit meeting and M. Pompidou's statement a week before the Norwegian referendum advocating the eventual membership of totalitarian Spain in the Market...
...marketeers had to ask support on the grounds that events outside of Norway made declining to enter unthinkable. European development would go on on without Norway. Stagnation was inevitable. Without the economic growth obtainable only by membership, precisely the subsidies and welfare programs which currently give the average Norwegian a better living standard than most in the Six could no longer be financed. Isolation, drifting, exclusion, possibly lessened external commitment to Norwegian defense, they say, would invariably result...
Anti-marketeers, starting a year or so ago, with almost none of the bases of power which traditionally have been vital in Norwegian politics, nevertheless obtained the offensive. Aligned against them were the entire Labor Party and Conservative press, virtually the entire commercial and industrial establishment, the Government itself and much of the Opposition, and such formidable advocates within the Common Market as the Norwegian-speaking chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt...
...second center of opposition developed in Norway's small communities elsewhere. Over half the Norwegian population lives in communities of less than 2500 persons. Life is good in such communities: Norwegian migration in the past two decades has been to such communities from the farms and hamlets, rather than to large centers. This has been a consequence of policy as much as of demography neither urban nor rural Norwegians wish to see the type of migration from farm to city which the Common Agricultural Policy is foreing on the Continent...