Happy with the status quo, Icelanders prefer to fix their own problems
REYKJAVÍK – The desire for national sovereignty outweighed the argument that EU membership was a necessary bulwark against geopolitical instability and Donald Trump.
Despite the US president’s threats against neighbouring Greenland, the allure of joining a big bloc failed to win over voters in a small Arctic nation far from the mainland of continental Europe.
The government moved forward a long planned EU referendum in the wake of Trump’s threats to annex neighbouring Greenland.
Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir pleaded in the last days of campaign that Trump’s behaviour should make Icelanders reconsider the island’s position in the world.
