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Seeing a bunch of people doing amateur analysis of Icelandic politics (“Iceland will probably join the EU!”) with no understanding of how any of it works here.

TBF, many Icelanders don’t either

EU supporters here generally want to join because historically European institutions have been a check on the local oligarchs who manage the economy for their own benefit at the expense of the public. Adopting the Euro and letting in foreign banks would reduce the power of local oligarchs further