History of Norway company by 1985, just to go bankrupt by 1993. Unemployment reached record-high levels in the early 1990s. By 1990 Norway was Europe's largest oil producer and by 1995 it was the world's second-largest oil exporter. Membership in the European Union was rejected in a 1994 referendum, with Norway instead joining the European Economic Area and later also the Schengen Area. Large public investments in the 1990s were a new National Hospital and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen—connected to the capital with Norway's first high-speed railway, the Gardermoen Line. A number of large government companies, such as Statoil, Telenor and Kongsberg were privatized.
History of the Jews in Norway about what happened to them in the Holocaust". However, this survey has been critiqued for being unreasonably simplistic in its classification of "harboring antisemitic attitudes". History of the Jews in Norway The Jews in Norway are one of the country's smallest ethnic and religious minorities, but have lived in Norway since the late fifteenth century. The population was devastated during the Holocaust, in which a significant portion of Norwegian Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. Although there likely were Jewish merchants, sailors and others who entered Norway during the Middle Ages, no efforts were made to establish a Jewish community.