ABSTRACT
In Part I, Chapters 7 and 8, the way Norway entered into the EU police cooperation was considered from two sovereignty perspectives. One perspective focused on internal sovereignty, where I argued that the Norwegian government failed to justify the actual consequences of the cooperation to its citizens, and thus made the informed enforcement of popular sovereignty impossible. The other perspective emphasised elements of external sovereignty, where I argued that Norway’s place in the EU institutional and political hierarchy makes the agreements (as a whole, at least) infringing on the Norwegian government’s possibility to de facto act internationally in a fully uninhibited way.
