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October 12, 2012

Norway: EU for Thee But Not for Me

Matthew Yglesias, Moneybox

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The most striking thing about the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee's decision to award a Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is that Norway is part of Europe by almost any geographical or sociological definition, and yet it's not part of the European Union.

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