EU would swallow us whole, says Iceland's nei campaign
The EU poses a greater threat to Iceland than Donald Trump, the leader of Iceland’s eurosceptic movement Heimssýn, Haraldur Ólafsson has told Euractiv.
Icelanders are heading to the ballot boxes on 29 August to decide whether the country should move forward with accession talks to join the EU.
“Entering the EU is taking a big step away from democracy the way we know it,” said Haraldur Ólafsson.
A physics professor at the University of Iceland, he is leading the country’s ‘no’, or nei, campaign. He lived in France for years and was unimpressed by the expansionist pro-European sentiments he experienced.
