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Norway

Norway is not a member of the European Union.

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  • Not in the EU
  • Schengen
  • EFTA

Relationship with the EU

  1. 25 March 2001Full Schengen membership

Data

GDP per capita in purchasing power standards159

Eurostat, 2025. Scale 0 to 260.

Milestones

Under the 2021 Language Act, Norwegian is the primary national language, with Bokmål and Nynorsk as equal written forms; Sámi languages are indigenous languages of equal value to Norwegian.

  1. 4 April 1949Signs the North Atlantic Treaty as a founding member of NATO. nato.int
  2. 5 May 1949Founding member of the Council of Europe. archive.org
  3. 3 May 1960Founding member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). europa.eu
  4. 1972Referendum on EEC membership: 53.5% no. europarl.europa.eu
  5. 1994Referendum on EU membership: 52.2% no. europarl.europa.eu
  6. 1 January 1994The European Economic Area (EEA) agreement enters into force. europa.eu

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