Brexit decision time
The Briefing Room
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🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What will Britain's relationship with the EU look like after Brexit? On Friday the cabinet meets in Chequers and the Prime Minister needs to unite her ministers to coalesce around a single approach to negotiations with the EU. What might that approach look like? Is the so-called Norway option back on the table? What would that mean and how might it work?
Contributors
Catherine Barnard - Professor of European Law at the University of Cambridge
Liv Monica Stubholt - partner at Norwegian Law firm Selmer, and an expert on Norway-EU relations
John Erik Fossum - Professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo,
Peter Spiegel - News editor, Financial Times and former Brussels Bureau chief.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Oronovich. The idea is that you and I get briefed together on the important questions of the day by people who know what they're talking about. And if you love it or you hate it, please let us know what you think by writing a review or rating us on iTunes or your podcast provider. This week, we're looking at the latest developments in the saga of Brexit and whether the so-called Norway model might offer a way forward for Britain |
| 0:24.7 | after it leaves the European Union. |
| 0:27.3 | And if you enjoy this, you might want to listen back to other editions of the briefing room. |
| 0:31.2 | Just typed BBC Briefing Room into your favourite search engine. |
| 0:47.5 | Tomorrow there's another Brexit crunch meeting. |
| 0:51.3 | But then, like someone walking down a thickly graveled path, |
| 0:56.6 | every single step seems to be a crunch. This gathering at Chequers will doubtless be guided by the Prime Minister's elaboration of her approach earlier this week. |
| 1:02.4 | There has been much sort of jocularity around the term Brexit means Brexit, but it does mean Brexit. |
| 1:08.7 | After two years, what Brexit means Brexit means |
| 1:12.4 | is beginning to resolve itself into two or three clearer alternatives. |
| 1:17.1 | And one that's being discussed a lot right now |
| 1:19.4 | is known as the Norway option. |
| 1:22.2 | Someone was prescient about this back in 2016, six months after the referendum. I think we're going to finish up in the spring of 19, |
| 1:31.3 | effectively with a Norwegian-type deal, which is not what the people of this country voted for. |
| 1:37.3 | Norway is not a member of the European Union which ought to make trade between the two more difficult, |
| 1:43.3 | but in fact, trade is |
| 1:44.9 | pretty easy between Norway and the EU. How come? And what are the downsides? Step into the briefing |
| 1:51.4 | room and all will be revealed. Apparently, the story of the so-called Norway option has its roots |
| 2:00.7 | in the creation of two bodies, the EEA, the European Union, the European Union, the story of the so-called Norway option has its roots in the creation of two bodies, |
| 2:03.0 | the EEA, the European Economic Area, and EFTA, the European Free Trade Association. |
| 2:11.4 | Sorry, but there it is. |
| 2:13.4 | To guide us through that maze is Catherine Barnard, |
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