Some political commentators think Center may win back voters who defected to the right-wing Progress Party, while Labour can gain on perhaps the most important issue tied to the entire drama: Cooperation with the EU, or even joining the EU.
Joining the EU? Wow. Would that be good for the EU or would we be welcoming another country willing to break it up and sow discord?
Norway is incredibly oil-brained and quite steeped in Norwegian exceptionalism … but there's also a lot of people who love the status quo no matter what, so it's not clear what the effect of Norway joining would actually be
1994 is not that long ago, and the politicians still entered EU regardless.
When we visited Brussel during VGs ~10 years ago we had a guide show us around the EU headquarters, when the guide asked how many wanted to join EU only two people raised their hand. Small sample pool, but I don't think the younger voting generation are overwhelmingly pro EU or anything. A 2023 poll also had 56% in opposition to joining EU, and only 52% in support for EØS.