The government can not allow for more imports

Arne Ivar Sletnes, head of department at the Norwegian Agricultural Cooperative, is interviewed by Bondebladet's Karl Erik Berge. Norway is in intense negotiations for a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom, our largest single market for exports. The agreement will be nailed down before the British leave the EEA and the common European market at the turn of the year. In order for the Storting to have time to put its stamp on the agreement, the negotiations must be completed as early as October. In this hasty work, the eagerness for an agreement must not result in increased imports of agricultural goods we can produce ourselves, says specialist manager Arne Ivar Sletnes in the Norwegian Agricultural Cooperative. - We already import 60 percent of the food we eat, and imports increase year by year. Failing food security is perhaps the biggest geopolitical threat facing the world. According to the UN, all countries must produce as much food as possible for their own ...