Browsing Tag »EU«
→ February 28, 2010
“Would you like the EU to take the credit for our victories?”
Does this video imply that we can claim victory if Germany, France or Spain wins the World Cup in July? Or that we can claim victory no matter who wins Eurovision? And does this mean that people in Spain take great pride in Norway’s [...]
→ February 26, 2010
The conclusion to a paper I wrote in a course in International Relations at the University of Iceland last semester. The title of the paper, Why has Iceland applied for EU membership?
The time and the place of the Social Democrats
Icelanders have participated in the European integration process without perhaps understanding the larger implications of it. [...]
→ December 11, 2009
This paper asks why Iceland had until July 2009 chosen to participate in the European
project through the EEA and Schengen agreements but not with full membership in the EU. It
analyses if and how ideas on the Icelandic nation and its sovereignty affects the stance
Icelandic politicians have taken towards the European project. Icelanders’ struggle for
independence in [...]
→ December 1, 2009
In honour of Heimssyn’s celebration of Iceland’s sovereignty to be held today at Salurinn in Kopavogur I wrote a message to our former friends in Europe who have now conspired to rip us off through the IceSave agreement, by enacting terrorist law against Iceland and wait to rob us of our resources.
On the day when we [...]
→ November 21, 2009
For people from outside Iceland it is probably hard to understand the world Bjarni Benediktsson seems to live in.
The chairman of the Independence Party who is normally afraid of speaking his mind under the watchful gaze of his predecessors says in an interview with Frettabladid today that he is pro-European. He claims that it is [...]
→ November 17, 2009
It is puzzling to an outsider that Iceland is already deeply integrated
into European and other international treaties and organizations (including
the European Economic Area, the Schengen border-control
agreement, the Council of Europe [consisting of parliamentarians
from more than forty European countries], NATO, the Nordic Council,
the Arctic Council, the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, the World Trade Organization, and [...]
→ October 29, 2009
In every Nordic country the main sector has dictated whether the public votes yes or no on the EU. In Sweden and Finland the manufacturing sectors, in Denmark the agriculture export industry and in Norway oil, fish and agriculture.
Their access to politicians is such that the public does not stand a chance once their propaganda [...]
→ September 24, 2009
The questionnaire on information requested for the preperation of the Opinion on the application of Iceland for membership of the European Union.
Questionnaire_-_ICELAND_(final).PDF
Direct link to Foreign Ministry Website
→ September 23, 2009
The Foreign Ministry is getting close to completing the answers to the list of 2.500 questions posed by the EU in relation to the membership application.
Why so quick? Long before getting one from the EU, the Icelandic government had scored the question lists that Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro had received for their own accession process. So [...]
→ September 8, 2009
Olli Rehn, the European Union´s Commissioner for Enlargement, will give a talk Wednesday September 9 at 10:30 am, on the European perspective of Iceland. Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, will open the meeting and the moderator is Baldur Þórhallsson, Political Science Professor and Chair of the Institute of International Affairs.
The seminar is held in [...]