What’s the general feeling in Iceland toward the EU now?
Well, the parties that won last elections, won it on a platform of stopping the EU entry-adjustment process. The last poll I find is with 63% against joining. Maybe it is a little less now, because the anti-independence crowd is always misleading people with talks about checking the package, that is seeing what kind of a deal we would get, instead of acknowledging that this is not a deal but an adjustment process, of our laws towards theirs.
The problem is though that the EU is always trying to rule more and more things through the EEA deal, which becomes a case for pro EU folks for us to join so we could affect that. The debate is pretty much about how much our control would increase by that and how much we already have had to take up of EU laws and regulations.
But I won´t see ourselves joining, but I am afraid that it could change if we get more and more economically linked to and stuck in the EEA area. We need freeer trade to the rest of the world, especially the US and the western hemisphere.