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Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by surgical_fire »

bradley13 wrote: post #164

There are two main problems with the EU, both political. First, the EU Commission has way too much power, and honestly wants to play dictator. Look at ChatControl: Voted down more than once, but the Commission just repackages and resubmits, with some dirty backdoor tricks, until they get it through. Parliament is not allowed to propose legislation, only the Commission. Second, regulatory hell. The continual avalanche…

The EU commission is just a way for national governments to launder their authoritarian desires through the EU. The commissioner for each country is choser by national governments. It's them pushing that shit.

The main problem with it, is that when you vote on national elections, typically you are concerned with local issues. Housing, healthcare, transportation, employment, immigration, etc.

Nobody is really thinking "who will this party behave on the EU level?" Then they do shit like this and hide behind "we have to comply with the EU".

Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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ekidd wrote: post #7

> The No campaign fears losing control over Iceland's prized fishing grounds under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and has vowed never to share the country's waters with anyone. Brussels has indicated Iceland could earn some kind of exemption, but it is considered potentially the biggest obstacle to any agreement. As noted in the article, Iceland's fishing industry makes up something like 40% of their exports. Which…

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Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by surgical_fire »

bojan wrote: post #145
OKRainbowKid wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The arguments that some put forward against the eu are as educated as the people declaring fiat money a scam back in the Bitcoin hype phase. > > While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about. Indeed! As I just learned in this comment, the EU is about to collapse and Iceland would be stupid to board an already sinking. Makes me wonder where these commenters…

There are obscene amounts of money involved in financing anti-EU marketing. The European unity is a thorn in the eyes of Russia, the US and China. A (reasonably) united Europe is the fourth major player on the global scene. 27 individual states aren't influential by themselves and are much easier to be influenced.

This is the reality of this.

For larger countries is much easier to deal with Europe when it's a bunch of small countries butting heads with their neighbors.

Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by azan_ »

stavros wrote: post #64
ekidd wrote: post #7

> The No campaign fears losing control over Iceland's prized fishing grounds under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and has vowed never to share the country's waters with anyone. Brussels has indicated Iceland could earn some kind of exemption, but it is considered potentially the biggest obstacle to any agreement. As noted in the article, Iceland's fishing industry makes up something like 40% of their exports. Which…

Why would we (as an EU member) want Iceland to compromise on such a vital issue, though? I understand that it's simpler to have common regulations among all members, but when theirs works, why mess with it? It sounds unreasonable.

It could potentially open doors for other EU states to ask for exempts.

Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by runarberg »

ngruhn wrote: post #143
bluegatty wrote: post #108

These debates are hard to watch. 'Loss of sovereignty' for some reason is perfectly fine for Iceland, Switzerland and Norway, but not UK or others wanting to leave. 'Fisheries' was a small but founding and perennial concern before and during Brexit but they were labelled 'ugly nationalists'. The EU has benefits obviously but it's been failing Europe in critical ways for about 20 yeas now, and the crazy paradox is tha…

> The EU has benefits obviously but it's been failing Europe in critical ways for about 20 yeas now I like those benefits: The shared currency, easy travel, they killed roaming fees! Also they're the only ones seriously taking on big tech. They made Apple ditch their dumb ass lightning cable.

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Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by latch »

ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #167
throwfaraway135 wrote: post #154

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In most European countries we don’t vote for prime minister/presidents. The representatives from the parties are free to choose whoever they want, but generally it becomes a leader of the largest party in the governing party/coalition.

And Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, ...

Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by stavros »

azan_ wrote: post #176
stavros wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would we (as an EU member) want Iceland to compromise on such a vital issue, though? I understand that it's simpler to have common regulations among all members, but when theirs works, why mess with it? It sounds unreasonable.

It could potentially open doors for other EU states to ask for exempts.

Well, they should, if they're reasonable.

Re: Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Post by mattrighetti »

apples_oranges wrote: post #23

The arguments that some put forward against the eu are as educated as the people declaring fiat money a scam back in the Bitcoin hype phase. While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about.

> While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about.

Are we supposed to believe you know something about it? Would be helpful to have a different perspective from people who know better or claim to.

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