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[...]Solberg said there would be both disadvantages and advantages if the U.K. were to join the EEA, which also includes Iceland and Liechtenstein.
“Now we are more like-minded,” she said. “Britain has a different economy, of course there will be some disadvantages to that.” [...]
If the U.K. does opt to join Norway, she said the group’s members would “always find a good way of solving this,” even though it would entail some disadvantages for Norway.
“The EEA is the only organization in which Norway is a super power. Losing that is of course of [big] importance — then Britain becomes a super power in that organization,” she joked.
However, she warned that Britain will lose trade “bargaining power” outside the EU and will be less “challenging” with its trade partners. [...]
“We do agree with the EU that you cannot be cherry-picking,” Solberg said. “Norway is outside [the EU], but we are inside the single market … We do accept that decisions on the four freedoms are done in Brussels.”
“You can’t just opt out of one of the freedoms,” she added. [...]