JakeS:

That doesn't apply any more, and hasn't for some years.

That may be true in Denmark, and is probably, as you later imply, because of the rightward progress of the Danes' recent descent through Night and Fogh.

But my client informs me in no uncertain terms that Norwegians are in fact becoming increasingly pissed off with:

(a) EU financial demands in respect of EEA fees payable - the Lion's share being Norway's.

(b) perceived EU intrusions into areas Norwegians hold sacrosanct, in particular, property rights and the relationship between public and private sectors.

Only today we see Norway's (very left wing and feisty, but constrained by her office) finance minister in Brussels telling the Commission where to get off in relation to Norway's superior (more than double, at current exchange rates) level of guarantees for bank deposits.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky