Two polls made in July show an ever increasing majority against Norwegian EU membership.

The polls made by Sentio for newspapers Nationen and Klassekampen showed these figures (per cent) for June and July:

Yes No  Don’t  know

June 2010 26.7 62.5 11.8 July 2010 25.3 66.1 8.6

Only one party, Høyre (Cons.) can muster a small majority for Yes (47 per cent as against 44).

Source: Nationen 19.07.2010: http://www.nationen.no/2010/07/19/politikk/eu/meningsmaling/6069601/

According to another July poll, however, the Yes majority in Høyre has also vanished. The poll made by Nordstat for NRK (the public service TV and radio) only 42 per cent are positive, while 50 per cent are negative. This is the first time ever that Høyre is unable to muster a majority for EU membership among its members.

Source: Nationen 26.07.2010: http://www.nationen.no/2010/07/26/politikk/eu/meningsmaling/hoyre/6079267/.

Luise Hemmer Pihl, Team Board member

Full kollaps for ja-sida. Bare 33 prosent ønsker norsk medlemskap i EU

We can guess that with barely 33% people in favor of EU membership Norway is safe out of EU.

European Voice reports that 51 percent of Norwegians are opposed to joining the EU, up from 48.3 percent, in August and 35.7 percent are in favour of joining, down from 38.5 percent. 12 percent said they did not know.

tnx to OE

Norwegians apparently know better.

On 20th of November demonstration against the passing of the Services Directive took place in front of the Norwegian Parliament. The Labour Party decided last week that they don’t want to use the right of reservation in the EEA agreement against the Services Directive. The other two government parties, the Centre Party and the Socialist Left party, voted against the passing of this directive. The Norwegian labour union (LO) demanded several guarantees from the government to support the passing of the directive, for instance that existing and future measures to prevent social dumping would be protected. The prime minister claimed this can be guaranteed, but as we all know the future content of the services directive will be decided by the ECJ.

Almost 900 Labour Party members and labour union members have signed a social democratic petition against the passing of the directive.

250 people outside the Norwegian parliament, several political parties represented, Youth against the EU hosted it. Central board member of the Norwegian Social Democrat Youth party (AUF), Stine Renate Håheim, and Boye Ullmann from one of our labour unions, made short speeches. There were other demonstrations in eight cities around Norway. We asked the government not to pass the directive after all, and a man dressed as a priest followed by a mock funeral possession buried Norwegian labour rights.

1) YOUNG NORWEGIANS SCEPTICISM TOWARDS EU RISES

77 % of young Norwegians between 17 and 30 years old are opposed to EU, according to a May 2008 survey in Norwegian daily “Aftenposten,” conducted on the 7th of May 2008. 62 % of middle aged adults, above 30 years old are also opposed to EU, while 38 % are EU-positive, according to the survey.
 
 
2) IRELAND IN POLITICAL TURMOIL

Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames said a survey by her staff conducted on the 10th of May 2008 in Galway county showed that around 36 % percent intend to vote No, while 30 % percent plan to vote Yes, with another 34 % percent is undecided in Galway county.
Yours sincerely, Lasse Riise, “Costal Party of Norway” (CP-N).
 
 
3) ICELAND’S PM LOUD AND CLEAR AGAINST EU

because he simply believed that the negative things about joining were far greater than the positive ones. Here is the news story in Icelandic. The headline says: “Geir: I don’t want to join the EU”

The Norwegian prime minister admits that the people had made the right choice in staying out of the Union, writes Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson, but he is still nostalgic about the idea itself, claiming he would still have liked to join the rest in Berlin to commemmorate the 50th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome.