A soft Brexit is best for Norway, trade minister says

By Stine Jacobsen OSLO (Reuters) - Britain should stay as closely connected to Europe's single market as it can after it leaves the European Union, the trade minister of non-EU member Norway said on Tuesday. The Nordic country, which pays hundreds of millions of euros to access the European internal market from outside the bloc, has been held up by some, especially Brexit supporters, as a potential model for post-Brexit Britain to follow. "Britain is perhaps our most important economic partner.