When sleeping dogs wake up

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The first statement of this paper is that Norway does not fully use its opportunities provided through the Schengen agreement. It is argued that it does make considerable use of formal possibilities within the Schengen agreement, and that this is mainly due to the pressure of participation in the working structures of the Council of the EU.7 But Norwegian EU policy tends to be less committed with regard to informal channels of influence outside the Council structures. The second statement of the paper is that a further linkage of Norway to JHA policies beyond Schengen is restricted by three main problems: (1) the occurrence of legal or constitutional barriers stemming from Norway's third country status that hamper ad-hoc agreements equivalent to original EU policies, (2) the potential lack of congruence with political aims of other EU-outsiders such as Iceland or Switzerland, and (3) the political motivated reluctance of member states to grant Norway a broader role in the field of JHA