iceland could become a member of the EU in your lifetime
what is your opinion on that?

>>213038631 (OP)
If you had told me it already was I would've believed you

>>213038631 (OP)
Wont change anything, i want to work in iceland but you guys wont let me

>>213038779
plenty of foreigners work here so you must be a megashitter

>>213038631 (OP)
why aren't you a member already? fishing?

>>213038631 (OP)
Cool.

>>213038631 (OP)
I am concerned. Why would you want foreigners in a different country to get to make up rules for you? Because that's what the EU is.

>>213039399
Getting crushed in trade deals because you're an irrelevent little micro nation with no bargaining power. That's why even Switzerland and Norway pays a premium to be part of the same umbrella even though not members. It's the whole point of the union. Or was anyways. Mutaded and morphed as it is.

>>213038631 (OP)
why would you degrade yourself like that?

>>213039631
I'm gonna vote LEAVE when the time comes. I don't want foreigners in a faraway land to get to make up arbitrary rules for me. Nothing is worth that.

>>213039751
Amen!

>>213039631
No we have to pay so norwegian companies can sell their products in EU.

>>213039751
>vote not to join
>join anyway
How could the corrupt EU do this to the unfailable swedish politicians?????

>>213038631 (OP)
It frustrates me that you and Luxembourg just won't get one million inhabitants

>>213039751
I'm not gonna argue with you. Just know that the countries that i listed also do exactly what the EU demands without even being members. That's how preferable it is to be part of the EU umbrella over sitting across the desk from countries like China all on your own when you're a country of 10 million people and a gdp of half a trillion or some such. The prices we fetch for goods and services while being so small isn't normal. Keep that in consideration. What's normal in yearly incomes of 10k a year and jumping through hoops to sell milk for pennies on the dollar to firsties

>>213039974
Shut the fuck up. I don't care about whatever you just wrote. I do not want to be ruled by a foreign power. That's all there is to it.

>>213039974
He thinks being a token for the usa to be sent to death at a whim is preferable over EU representatives agreeing on standards to make household appliances interoperable which infringes his right to make electronics that require a custom charger

>>213039974
if we were neighbours to china like tajikistan or kyrgizstan we would be chinese vassals
now we are eu's
has nothing to do with who is better or arguments, we are just in bruxelles turf

>>213039878
>While Norway is not a member of the European Union (EU), it is part of the European Economic Area (EEA) and is therefore obligated to implement a significant portion of EU laws. This is primarily due to the EEA agreement, which aims to create a single market with the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people, as well as cooperation in areas like competition, social policy, and the environment
You're literally not allowed to compete with the EU

>>213040168
Yes it's a foreign regime that only works against your interests which is why do you had to be coerced with force to submit your multi decade long application

>>213040164
Fuck you, foreigner, and your compliance with petty tyranny. I would kill you if that meant that Sweden leaves the EU. I really would.

>>213040278
I would kill you for much less, nor nothing even, but that's because I don't have empathy

I read all posts above me and ITT nobody has any ideea how EU works

>>213040100
See >>213040168
You're going to be bitchmade either way

>>213040237
croatia has been ruled by the same party for a long time, who are the croatian equivalent of orban, except liberal so apparently that makes them ok, and any pretense of political culture has disappeared
so talking about political processes is irrelevant, the same people will support the exact opposites depending on what media tells them
i'm not some kind of paranoid chud who looks for reasons to hate the eu btw, but i'm also not gonna glaze it and gloss over all the surrendering of national sovereignty and bad policy that gets shoved onto us because muh eu gibs and muh open border to 2000 euro min wage jobs like lower middle class conservaboomer iliterates do in droves

>>213040392
When someone tries to extort you, you say no.

>>213038631 (OP)
uh oh no more whaling.

>>213039399
They are already EFTA and EEA, they already don't decide shit. I'd say joining would make sense for them. It's a tiny nation though, smaller than Malta in population; dunno how well that would work.

>>213038631 (OP)
I think you would be welcome. I've read the plan is to give it a few years of discourse before deciding if you want to start the accession process. That's smart, even if you are already quite integrated in the European political structure, becoming a full member is a big step. What's your opinion on it? Do you feel connected to the continent, even as an island quite far away from it?

>>213040170
EU means nothing for us. Nothing would change in Norway if EU died tomorrow. The standard of living we have here would continue like nothing happened

Why would you? Iceland is apparently richer than us and they produce fucking nothing that i know off atleast, staying out of the EU seems like a sweet deal

>>213040413
>and bad policy
Such as?

>>213038631 (OP)
That would be very gay.

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar4eed4e61

>>213038631 (OP)
If the EU wasn't forced progressive communism, I'd actually support Canada joining. As it stands, the EU is a dumpster fire.
Just have a World War. It's better than the EU's current attitude.

>>213041162
>forced progressive communism
Name an EU country with a million Indians shipped just in Q1

>>213040237
the parliament is a bunch of clowns and social media influencers though with zero actual power

>>213041231
In contrast to what exactly that Russia is offering Ukraine?

>>213041251
??? ukraine and russia are not part of eu what are you talking about?

>>213041216
I missed that episode of USSR and friends

>>213038631 (OP)
cool

we need greenland next as an indepndet state to protect it from drumpf

>>213039200
You mean a street shitter I’m sure

>>213041330
An alternative vision for micro countries without allies

good for them ig?