I am propably overly optimistic here, but it is neccasery for us to fight back, even though we the Icelanders are not joining the EU until they take us over by a court decision or something like that.
It is neccasery for us to provide new nations in Europe (and other places) and current ones an alternative to the EU. Optimaly would be the joining of NAFTA and EFTA (European Free Trade A...), the old competing, more free market oriented European bodyvand not based upon the idea of creating a supercountry wich the EU is slowly subjucating through the EEA (European Economic Area) treaty we are subject to.
Would you guys not like to see the NAFTA expanding over the Atlantic, including perhaps the UK, Iceland and other European, and even African countries?
Ps. The man furthest to the left on the picture in the original article is an Icelandic parliment member from my party, the Independence party, a conservative-liberian-christian democratic-libertarian party, the biggest party in Iceland with around 40% of the vote.
I should propaply point out the most interesting part propably for you guys from the article:
-There was also a delegation of Americans at the first “Congress of Brussels.” As Daniel Hannan stressed:
“The anti-democratic and centralising tendencies of the EU are not simply a problem for Europeans – Brussels also exports its ideology. Few people in Washington have thought, from first principles, about what kind of Europe would be in American interests. While the US favours democracy, the EU favours stability. There is no hypocrisy here: the EU is not especially keen on democracy within its own borders, either. It is happy to disregard inconvenient referendum results or even – as when Austria admitted the FPÖ into government – to challenge national general elections.”
europeans are starting to see what the EU really is. A liberal elitist socalist organization constructed to force everyone in Europe to conform to their narrow views and try to act as some obstructionist force against the US.
France doesn't want to pay to have an army, so they will get the EU countries to pay for it all and massively subsidize french farmers with all their cut of the pie.
The EU is a friggin joke. Was never going to work.
What’s the general feeling in Iceland toward the EU now?
The signs were there early, but has there been a greater disappointment among current ‘world leaders’ than David Cameron?