We are part of the EEA. The agreement between the EU and the remaining EFTA members. (Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Switzerland.)
For Norway's part it means we adopt the legislation as national law (we can veto, but seldom happens) and are part of the inner market but not the customs union. Also special agreements on energy (oil) agriculture and fishing. We have no representation in the parliament or the commission. We participate on beurocratic level but cannot vote on anything. (I represent Norway in two 'group of experts" and two administrative cooperation groups) GoE discusses things on a higher level AdCo lower level and market surveillance.
We have a voice, but always a little bit apart.
Thats a great feeling.
I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003
(Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage space allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze.
A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn't get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it.
We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive.
I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn't slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it off and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn't able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.
Copied the files to her "home" area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.
The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.
I use the Norwegian finn.no (listings of everything from old books to cars to houses. Norway is such a small market that one service covers all)
It's perfect for selling used (but little used) baby and child stuff. I have also bought a lot off Lego Duplo.
Not hard to move. Almost impossible to move.
In my shelf apart from some old leather bound books from my grandfather (Churchils world history, complete Hamsund) and CE and hard cover 40k books I have nothing but paper trash
Bring it on mother fu.. 🔪 Greetings from Norway 🇳🇴
Nordic summers rule tho'