It is time to start membership negotiations, believes MDG, which presented one on Wednesday suggestion in the Storting.
– The Norwegian people have a right to well-informed debate about our most important political issues. It is unsustainable that the Norwegian EU debate will forever be stifled by fear of contact and scared party strategists, says representative of the Storting Rasmus Hansson to NTB.
The party passed its yes to the EU position at the national meeting last year. Now Hansson hopes that the debate will be kicked off in the Storting, and he hopes the proposal contributes to that.
– The world is changing so fast right now. Now it is the duty of politics to think about it, and to give people the opportunity to think about it, he says.
Want a binding referendum
In the proposal, the government is asked to take the initiative in negotiations with the EU. The aim is to arrive at a draft of conditions for Norwegian membership.
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– A final draft of the agreement must be submitted to a referendum. The result must be the bandages, says the proposal.
It is not known whether other parties will conceivably support the MDGs. Both the Right and the Left want Norwegian membership. Hansson hopes the time is ripe to open the debate in earnest.
– I really hope that politicians and parties in the Storting have the backbone to support this proposal, he says.
I think people have a right to debate
The proposal comes the day before the EEA investigation is presented. In the autumn of 2022, the government set up a committee to look at the experiences with the EEA agreement and agreements other countries have with the EU. But the committee was not tasked with investigating alternatives to the EEA.
MDG points out that much has changed since the referendum 30 years ago. Hansson believes that people have a right to a well-informed debate about our most important political issues.
– It is a democratic assault if soon more than half of the people will never be allowed to discuss such an important matter as the EU. The Swedes and Finns managed to rethink Nato in a few months when it crashed in Ukraine, he says.
2024-04-10 11:58:31
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