Tag: European Union

Women take pictures with their mobile phones as supporters wave an Icelandic flag during a referendum night event organised by Sfram Island, the ‘No’ campaign against resuming Iceland’s European Union accession negotiations, in Reykjavík, Iceland, on August 30, 2026.

When Iceland Said No to Brussels

Icelanders were offered a chair at the negotiating table. They looked at it. And decided they were perfectly comfortable standing.

Why Ideology Is the Wrong Lens for Understanding China

Has Europe gradually become so committed to institutional uniformity that it has unintentionally reduced one of the principal engines of its own historical success: competition among jurisdictions?