The Constitutional Issue of Norway and the European Union

The 20th anniversary of the agreement which Norway is affiliated with the European Union remains somewhat in the shadow of the vice-antennial of your constitution. I will deal with the problems currently facing the union with a view to a constitutional issue that is of importance beyond the boundaries of Europe. In other words, can the process of European unification lead to a form of democracy that is at one supernational end situated above the organizational level of a state? Today the issue of a supernationalization of democracy has become more urgent than ever because the national democracies are becoming more and more entangled in problems. The identifyce three courses of the increasing distance that separates the decision making processes of the European authorities form the