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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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. [...]

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 [...]

Some compare the plan to the Versailles treaty’s harsh demands of Germany. A better analogy is the 1982 Latin American debt crisis, in which even Chile, poster boy of Chicago School economics, saw the state take over a mountain of private debt. A decade of stagnation followed. The same could be in store for Iceland. [...]

I am responsible for the Citizen’s Movement. I voted for them in the election and since the they have given me reasons to be both elated and puzzled. Citizen’s Movement MP, Thrainn Bertelsson shares my concerns when talking about his three colleguaes in the parliament to Frettabladid today. The other three, Thor Saari, Birgitta Jonsdottir [...]

So Althingi did the only right thing and approved EU talks. I predicted a few days after the economic crash in October that this would mean that Iceland would be a EU member by 2012. I stand by that prediction. Despite the fear-mongers and special-interest groups within the Progressive Party, Left Greens and the Independence [...]