So Brussels can order them around in their own land? Icelanders would have to be suicidal to make that choice. I wonder how the Icelanders would like if if great hoards of Africans began arriving demanding "human rights" from them? That is what will happen if they join the EU. Brussels will sell the idea with smiles and banquets but just wait until after the deal is signed. It will be too late then. All the tourist hotels will begin being filled with economic migrants demanding free services. Reject the EU while you can and get rid of any politicians who advocate for it before it's too late.

Great news 😊

Could make sense. Trump will likely try to annex Greenland again and is already bullying Canada. Will be much safer for Iceland to join a dysfunctional family than stand alone.

51st state when?

I can't wait how brexiteers are going to defend this. Wasn't the eu going to be destroyed and wouldn't other countries leave it en masse?

As a small business owner in Belgium I had no choice but to let go three employees due to the this indexation mechanism. That is the other side of the coin, that was not discussed in this video.

White people love Meloni

So basically political elites are destroying another economy to force it to join a block that will not only continue to destroy that economy but also dictate policy in that country. Got it.

That would be a mistake

While I would be extremely happy to welcome our Icelandic friends into the fold, I must add that: - a 51% versus 49% referendum is undesirable. Ideally they should aim for at least a 65% versus 35% to make sure a REAL majority of Icelanders is on board. - Icelandic politics has some seriously shady corners. Most politicians openly lobby with multinationals, often to obtain results that are actually detrimental for common Icelanders. This could lead to open frictions with the EU. - Fisheries and immigration risk becoming two devastating time bombs. As for the fisheries, Iceland is essentially used to do as it pleases and that won't be possible. Immigration, in particular, is already endangering the Icelandic language, with most people currently employed in the tourism sector unable to utter a single word in Icelandic. With a population so small, the risk is great.

Just to add to the euro discussion. Many large companies in iceland use the euro for their finances, but those same companies lobby heavily to make sure that the rest of the country does not use the euro. By doing this they can benefit from crashing the krona, making labor cost low, making loans for them cheap (but very expensive for others) and also can use the opportunity to buy up real-estate.

it probably wont though, there is too much corruption for it to ever happen. Imagine having to explain the fact that the Fishrot File people haven't had to face any charges for their action but have been actively shielded from prosecution by members of previous government for years, and that is just one relatively minor corruption, or the fact that the previous prime minister when he was a finance minister set up a company owned by the government only for it to funnel money to private individuals without oversight and than covered it up, that was discovered before he was prime minister, that same person was caught tax dodging when the panama papers were made public. I could go on for days.. these people would be in jail if iceland was in the eu.

It's sad that another piece of land will go to greedy multiculturalists-globalists, we can expect an Islamic caliphate Iceland now.

Please don't its a mini uk

I am not poor, how do people come to the conclusion that Germans are poor? The AfD is mainly voted for by people with a low income and a low level of education. Worldwide, people with a poor education are more likely to vote for populists. Money moving upwards is completely normal in capitalism. Nevertheless, the gap between rich and poor is not as big as in the USA, for example. I work as a computer scientist and IT project manager and am one of the higher earners.

This is not quite correct. Iceland doesn't have a standing army, true, but it has a defense force, the country has experience with the logistics of annual NATO exercises and the small IRCU haa been deployed as part of peacekeeping missions. Yes, this is not the same as a standard military operated by other countries, but there are structures and institutional knowledge to build on.

It’s not already?

Pretty accurate summary of things. I'll be doing a more detailed video about the election itself on my channel in the coming days.

I would love to have Iceland in the EU, but they should manage a deal protecting their own fishing waters. (Im Dutch, not Icelandic).

harder to go from high GDP to higher than it is to go from bottom of the barrel to higher, no?

From all candidates the only one I would currently accept

To understand the graph at 1:28 I had to google both Euro vs Usd and Krona vs Usd, as the Euro values now for example 1.05 USD. So very far from the 0.008 Usd on the Y graph. Maybe add the Euro value on the opposite Y axe and add labels? Otherwise very interesting as usual. Thanks for the work.

7:22 Correction: Illegal migration

I don't think joining the EU would fix any of the issues except for a stable currency. For the others, such as cost of living, it may actually make it worse.

😐Britain becomes evermore isolated & irrelevant. EU don't want us back .. Farage shafted UK not realising he was doing EXACTLY what Putin wanted 😐

Would it be out of place to express how pretty Georgina is? It probably would, I'm sorry. This is a serious commentary area, where we talk about Island - I will show myself out 😔

Isn't anyone in Iceland paying attention to the EU? They'll forbid Iceland to fish in it's own waters and give that right to the Congo.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 EU accept all those Muslims. NO! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This can't be true. I thought we only allow mid-income flawed democracies in.

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Very interesting naming tradition where from the comments here it seems almost rude to call someone by their patrinymic last name. ( Which for women in Iceland is it not matrinymic?) So in Iceland people have always been on a 'first-name basis.' In my country its more of a casualisation of a formal/informal rule that people use first names more.

My advice from living inside EU!! Don’t do it!!! You won’t be sovereign state anymore!

Why are we talking about a country with 25% gdp from fishing like a joke lol. Even the warzone in Syria probably has a bigger trade volume.

Iceland is gonna sell it's soul

Iceland - just join the motherland (Norway) instead.

get ready to invite syria and afghanistan iceland wohoo

Hopefully not

Does this mean that, finally, Canada has a chance of joining too?

Unless Iceland puts in a amendment that they get to control ALL immigration, i would tell the EU to kick rocks or the EU will turn the small island into a 3rd world country of "refugees". If you refuse like poland or hungary, you will be fined until you comply.

I doubt it, they already have a beneficial relationship with the EU, Norway etc. and considering the state the EU is in, Germany in economic turmoil, major migration crisis, housing crisis, cost of living crisis, surge in the far right, increasing number of pro-Russian states and politicians, and a potential future trade war with US on the horizon, I doubt they'd want to risk it for a few lacklustre benefits.

Europe stopped voting pro Pfizer political parties. They want critical thinking.

Not if they are smart

Peace plan? More like a surrender plan

Исландия посматривая на треску и угрожая Британии: У*бу 😁 Sorry English speakers, that's a Russian meme regarding gadus wars with Britain

Why do we keep asking the Poles what Europeans think? Why not ask the Bulgarians or the Greeks?

As a EU enthusiast, I'd be glad if Iceland (or any other country) joined the EU, but only if they are ready to embrace what it originally represents (peace, solidarity and support among states, etc). If new members start taking opt-outs we'll never move forward. Iceland already has a good deal, so there is no need to join the club unless they really want to be a part of it. That's my opinion, anyway.

The only thing they could do they(putin) are unwilling to do ... backing out of ukraine and thus they are unable to do so and have to accept defeat either way ... master stategist.

Germany leaning towards Leaving EU lol and tiny island is in. Great Eu future. Not to mention disaster in Ukraine.

EUs stance on fisheries is crazy. Demanding that Iceland gives up control of their main resource if they join the union is just bizarre. What will Icelanders do when their fishing areas are flooded with huge factory fishing vessels from across Europe?

I think EU should leave Norway and Iceland sovereignty when it comes to fishing. Already lack of sovereignty is one of the reasons why there is a far-right increase. Such move would gain the EU more support.