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As opposed to the miniscule say we would have as one of 28. It would hardly make much of difference if Germany or France wanted to push in a different direction, or if the budding dictatorship member state decides to veto.

Smaller countries have a bigger say than they should, to prevent the bigger nations from steamrolling them. That said it would take a few, which is why the UK leaving was a bit sad. They were usually on our side.

And again, what is there to gain to trade our sovereignty for? It would also make essentially impossible to ever decouple from EU if it starts going a direction we don't want to follow.

But right now Norway has NO say, and follow almost everything we decide. How is that better? What sovereignty are you afraid of losing? Don't you think banding together with the other nordics and perhaps the baltics would give you more of a say? And as the UK is finding out as we speak, it's very, very, hard and expensive, to decouple from your closest neighbour and trading partner. Canada is also in a similar situating, but for a different reason.

We budget ~5 billion dollar annually in foreign aid. The annual EEA "membership cost" between 2014 and 2021 was ~0,4 billion. The cost really isn't much of a concern. And it's not like you stop sending money to the EU once you become a member. E.g. Sweden is a net contributer to EU with 1,6 billion euros spent in 2023.

Oh no, membership costs, especially for rich countries, but a rising tide lifts all ships, so it's not a bad deal. But as an example, at the time of joining, Poland had the same GDP as Ukraine and now Poland has 5 times the GDP of Ukraine. Numbers taken before the invasion.

I'm happy for you, and not at all salty that we'll never have Scandinavian union instead 😔

We can have a nordic union within the EU. Norway would absolutely strengthen the north. I'd welcome you, as well as Iceland and I'd also take the UK back, in time.

I'm not going to tell you what to do, but not being part of the EU is a bit strange to me. You follow about 80% of our EU rules without any real say about them. You pay into the EU budget. You're almost members already, so I feel full membership would just confirm what you already have. It's pretty good for us other nordics, so I believe you'd be just fine. But again, that's up to you.

Refusal to withdraw troops to Russia proper show that Russia doesn't want peace.

Not sure about Vipps/Mobilepay, but for Swish I don't think you do. It's connected directly to the bank account IIRC.

If you're in the Nordics I suggest Vipps/Mobilepay/Swish as payment methods.

We already have a lot of these. For maps you have OrganicMaps or OsmAnd. For Waze we have MagicEarth.

What will be harder is indeed the productivity tools like office etc.

So these are EU hosted on own hardware? That's good.

How many, if any, of the EU providers use Google/AWS/Azure as a back-end?

Maybe put an NSFW tag if you're going to show dead people?

Care to give an example of an EU country that illegally annexed part of another country in the last 80 years or so?

If you look in /r/conservative on reddit they have a completely different view. Prices are down according to them. If you check from November. I can't be arsed to check because I don't care.

That whole subreddit is a huge circlejerk, so small doses are required or you'll get nauseous.

I'm sure Ukraine would send eggs if asked. 5 eggs for a patriot missile, 10 for a fully equipped abrams tank.