Labor costs are higher (meaning people earn decent wages)
Importing things can be very expensive to Norway, meaning the local economy takes precedence in most things where it can.
There is less imigration, and unlike other EU nations, you can come here, but only if you can prove that you can support yourself and/or get a job to do so.
Norway pays subsantially less money to the EU than most member states
Norway has a larger degree of independence
Norway to a large degree has much more sovereignty
Norway is capable of closing its borders when it needs to
Some of these things fall in the category of "protectionism" which is a thing I was pretty much taught in school was "bad" and is not how the EU works.
However, it is good, because it works against globalism, stops needless consumerism; which is almost like a disease at times, stimulated by large international businesses.
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Some of these things fall in the category of "protectionism" which is a thing I was pretty much taught in school was "bad" and is not how the EU works.
However, it is good, because it works against globalism, stops needless consumerism; which is almost like a disease at times, stimulated by large international businesses.