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Anti-EU parties poised to win power in Iceland
EU Observer ^ | 26.04.13 @ 10:30 | Nikolaj Nielsen

Posted on 04/26/2013 9:16:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Iceland’s EU-skeptic opposition groups are facing off with the island-nation’s pro-EU government ahead of a general election on Saturday (27 April).

Polls indicate voters are likely to unseat the ruling Social Democrats in favor of the Progressive or Independence center-right parties. The Financial Times reports one in two are likely to vote for a different party than they voted for in the last parliament elections in 2009. …

Fishing represents some 40 percent of the small country’s economy. Joining the EU would mean quotas and rules would be negotiated and decided upon in Brussels—the two are already engaged in a mackerel quota dispute. …

(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euroskepticism; eussr; iceland; sovereignty

1 posted on 04/26/2013 9:16:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Might just dodge the bullet.


2 posted on 04/26/2013 9:17:25 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Olog-hai

Good for Iceland!


3 posted on 04/26/2013 9:18:21 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Olog-hai

Icelanders are more American than many Americans, I’m sorry to say.


4 posted on 04/26/2013 9:23:11 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

sorry but most Americans are cabbages, from seeing first hand on a college campus last week, to dealing with people on the phone to talking to the average American at a party last week to seeing a guy in CA with a petition asking for signatures to get rid of our rights then I can only conclude most Americans are spoilt cabbages


5 posted on 04/26/2013 9:26:30 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

Don’t take a college campus as a microcosm of the whole USA, please. If it were, we would have had the Second Amendment gone long ago via the gun control that the leftist politicians want to impose.


6 posted on 04/26/2013 9:35:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They should return to sacking and looting the EU.


7 posted on 04/26/2013 9:56:50 AM PDT by Paladin2
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