[Iran Press TV Latest] More than 50 percent of the people in Norway are opposed to their country's entry into the European Union, a recent poll has suggested.
According to an opinion poll conducted by the Norstat institute for public broadcaster NRK, only 32.3 percent of Norwegians support the EU admission and another 12.7 percent are yet to decide on the issue.
"It is clear that what is currently happening in Europe has caught the attention of Norwegians," Heming Olaussen, who heads the No to EU organization, told NRK.
A similar poll administered by NRK last month almost rendered the same results, putting 55.8 percent in favor of the decision, 30.6 percent opposed to the plan and 13.6 percent undecided about the issue.
Despite earlier opposition to the plan, some analysts maintain that the public debt crisis in the block -- particularly in Greece -- and economic tensions in the Union have contributed to the recently-announced results.
"This is exactly the kind of crisis the EU was created to resolve," Paal Frisvold, head of pro-European movement Europabevegelsen, told NRK.
To conduct its survey, Norstat examined 969 respondents from April 27 to May 3.
Norway had previously rejected EU membership in referendums in 1972 and 1994. |