ABSTRACT
The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA), which expanded the economic market to include some European non-European Union (EU) states, was signed in 1992, and entered into force on 1 January 1994. The Agreement was implemented in Norwegian law by a specific Act. The EEA Agreement aligns Norway with the EU member states on the single market, implying free trade, and the applicability of the four freedoms of goods, persons, services and capital. For Norway, the Schengen Agreement implied a generally lowered threshold for police cooperation and fewer restrictions related to requests for assistance between Norway and other Schengen members. Norway should be considered as both inside and outside, given its position in the Schengen cooperation. It seems, based on the statements and considerations in the policy documents concerning Schengen that nothing really changed between the negative referendum decision and the Schengen accession.
