Italy Favors Norwegian Model for U.K. Links With European Union
- That deal would allow Britain to keep access to single market
- Junior European affairs minister Gozi speaks in interview
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Italy favors a Norwegian-type model for the U.K.’s future relationship with the European Union, allowing the British to keep access to the bloc’s single market, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s junior minister for European affairs said.
“The most effective and immediate deal could be the European Economic Area, the Norwegian model,” Undersecretary Sandro Gozi said in an interview at his Rome office Thursday. “You are out of the EU but you are part of the single market. If you ask me today, I would be ready to sign an agreement on this now, but I am not sure the U.K. would be ready to sign for it too.”