
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.

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

The government’s insistence that this referendum is “just about talks” echoes criticisms of how EU integration has proceeded elsewhere: incremental steps that are difficult to reverse.