Iceland says dropping bid for EU membership

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

Iceland on Thursday announced it was dropping its bid to join the European Union in line with pledges made two years ago by its then new eurosceptic government.

Iceland first applied for EU membership in 2009 but Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson said in a statement that the centre-right government had informed current EU president Latvia and the European Commission of its decision to annul the application.

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[newfie11]

1. Wise move! Nt

[DonCoquixote]

2. The first, probably not the last

Sorry to say, the EU has acted like a bunch of divas, and by that, I mean the three singers competing with each other for the Microphone: London, Paris and Berlin. Between the mess in Ukraine, the mugging fo greece and the fact that Iceland was right all along, the EU may crumble quicker than it rose, Euro and all. The death Knell will sound if marine Le pen wins in France.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Smart.

Stay away from the EU. Iceland would have been nothing more than a street corner prostitute of Pimp Merkel and Brussels.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. There should be an alternate union

One that rejects austerity. ie. rejects the failed 'trickle down' theories that benefit mostly the top 1%. Where you take from the poor and give to the rich. And instead embraces the theory of increasing minimum wages, better social programs and structures to get people's feet on the ground. Lifting the poorer class up into tax paying middle classes with greater spending power.

Iceland, Greece, Argentina, Bolivia, Along with northern European countries. If enough of them got together they could reject rulings by IMF and create their own body to replace it.

[mwooldri]

6. A role for the European Free Trade Association perhaps?

Iceland happens to already be a member. You can have free trade and reject austerity. Greece is in its bind because it has the Euro as it's currency and can't exactly change it around. Good luck in getting non EU European countries on board - you're talking Norway and Switzerland here and they always want to do their own thing. I don't understand where Argentina and Bolivia got involved here...

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

- Damn right.