As Norway's integration with the EU intensified, he suggests that media, public and political understanding shrank.

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Britain and other member states objected to Mr Verhofstadt's federalist vision of EU integration.

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And he will argue that deeper information sharing rather than harmonisation is how the EU should pursue integration, building on Brown's successful riposte to the proposal to establish an EU withholding tax on income from financial securities.

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