Tag: Iceland

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.

Iceland’s Foreign Minister Fears a “Brexit Moment”

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.