@baybizz wrote:
>> #581: Norway was fed similar lies and scaremongering about economic disaster, being isolated and so on, if they didn't vote to be in the EU in '94. That was a load of bull...
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But the rest of the Union insisted it would have little effect on its future. European Commission President Jacques Delors led EU leaders in expressing his "disappointment". "Norway could have contributed a lot to the EU, but we respect this vote," he said. "The door remains open to them - the door will never be closed. (Suspicious) But he accepted that Norwegians had been suspicious of his Brussels bureaucracy. He tried to reassure them, saying: "We only add new laws when these are indispensible. It is national civil servants, and not us, who make laws more complicated - they complicate through compromise. " But he admitted "This proves that peoples can at any stage say "Stop!"
He (Delors) tried to reassure them, saying: "We only add new laws when these are indispensible. It is national civil servants, and not us, who make laws more complicated - they complicate through compromise.
