But there's also the Norwegian attitude to land ownership and use, which is one of the principal issues they have with the EU's approach to property ownership and the free market.
Norwegians fundamentally do not allow "absentee" landlordism - although it has gradually been insinuated as the "Anglo Disease" has crept in. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
Odelsrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Odelsrett is an ancient Scandinavian allodial title which has survived in Norway as odelsrett
This law has been an important building block on which a stable and thriving farming community has been instrumental in sustaining local communities all over the country.
That is why I regard partnership-based "Open Corporate" (eg UK LLP) agreements as a form of "Legal XML" capable of linking disparate jurisdictions and legal persons in the same way that XML links disparate hardware and software.
The Semantic Web: Law is Code. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
These old Viking laws are still FUNDAMENTAL to the Norwegian way of life, and no EU law should be allowed to 'dilute' them, IMO.
It may be a better EU if they adopted them...;-)
And by the way, they also apply in Orkney and Shetland as Udal title...
I would suggest that a better understanding of how societies have developed in the Nordic countries may give food for thought to the (still, IMO) Empire building attitudes of the larger EU countries.
Maybe I should sit down one day...
