Iceland Just Got Played
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Iceland Just Got Played
On August 28, roughly a quarter of a million Icelanders took to the polls to register their thoughts on whether Europeans would steal their fish. Well, that wasn’t the question on the ballot. But it proved to be all Icelanders cared about. And as a result, Icelanders may have committed a Brexit-esque act of self-sabotage.For the last three months, the island nation of roughly 400,000 people has played host to a heated referendum campaign on whet…
They still exist, the nations that are exemplary in democracy policy: one example is Iceland. Here the people were allowed to decide whether a resumption of EU accession negotiations is desired. The majority of citizens rejected this. Thus, the eurocratic left-wing and regulatory delusion continues to pass by the Icelanders.
The referendum on August 29th asked: “Should Iceland reopen accession negotiations with the European Union?” The majority of voters, 52.8%, answered no. The answer seems clear, yet there has already been some debate about what that means.
Although it rejected membership in the referendum, Iceland remains part of the European Economic Area and Schengen, and this is also in the EU's interest. Why shouldn't this be a model for all other candidates for membership, including the Balkan states? The article Icelandic "no" to the EU as a recipe for Serbia? appears first on Novi Standard.
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