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No EU For Iceland: Left-Greens

Jón Bjarnsson

Jón Bjarnsson

Iceland‘s Left-Green Movement has taken a “clear and conclusive” stance against the country joining the European Union, and is using its position in the country’s interim coalition government to make sure it does not happen.

“The Left-Greens’ stance is clear and conclusive,” said party group chairman Jón Bjarnason in Parliament last Wednesday. “We believe it is better for the sake of protecting Iceland’s interests to remain outside the European Union and that we’re better off without it considering our independent policy.”

A rift has formed in the interim coalition government over the issue, with the LGM and center-right Independence Party voicing opposition to Iceland joining the EU and the center-left Social Democrat Alliance in favor of it. The debate waged on in Parliament for most of last week.

“The EU discussion is one of our most important issues,” replied Katrín Júlíusdóttir, Social Democrat Alliance MP.

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  1. Web Smith says

    Please have a chat with your friends in Ireland. Many of them have tasted the kool-aid and are thinking of approving the Lisbon treaty.

  2. Balder says

    Those who think that the EU primarily is about economic cooperation and common technical standards, must inform him or her self a little better.

    The European Union is first and foremost an ideological project, a step on the way to a ‘world government’.

    This is to be brought about by taking away the direct influence from the common voters and delivering all power into the hands of an unelected and undemocratical elite of ‘apparatchiks’, anonymous officials and ideologues.

    The most important aim of the EU is dissolving of the nation states, and the breaking up of homogenous populations. To create this (called ‘diversity’) multicultural paradise mass immigration is used.

    Here you can find some information which is suppressed by the main stream media:

    Euro Mediterranean – Barcelona Declaration Secret EU agreement on Muslim mass immigration

    The Racist and Supremacist Roots of European Union Ideology

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