Norway girds for Brexit no-deal with message for Barnier
Scandinavia's richest country is working hard to ensure it doesn't lose out in any transitional accord struck between the EU and Britain.
(Bloomberg) As it girds for the possibility that Britain and the EU won't reach a Brexit deal before the end of the year, Norway wants Europe's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, to acknowledge the special status of the UK's biggest gas supplier.
"Things are time-critical and it’s important to secure real agreements over the days and weeks we have up to the EU summit in the middle of December," Marit Berger Røsland, Norway's EU and EEA Affairs Minister, said in an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Oslo.
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