Sad but not unexpected. The EU doesn't do influence operations but its adversaries does. I will not be surprised when it comes out that both Russia and the US invested heavily in getting Iceland to vote no.

A shame that they didn't even want to talk, but at least Trump and Putin got their wish.

I get the fear around the fishing industry, but regardless of Iceland's dependance on them we all need to stop eating fish. We're completely wrecking the ocean ecosystems - it's not sustainable.

I'd love to have Iceland fully join us in the EU.

I read very interesting interview with a fisherman from Iceland. He said that he wanted to join the EU in the past but now it is „economic prison” and he doesn’t want to join it. To me - it really looks like we are loosing propaganda battle with huge empires spreading propaganda against the eu aggressively, without our response. No idea how to change that but I spent half of the morning thinking about it with no result. It really is not based on merit. Like most of politics nowadays. We have the highest standard of living, strong economy etc. Yes - we are getting weaker by sending shit tones of money to our adversaries for LNG which we literally just burn but we can counter that.

Sad, but fair. Door is open if they change their mind

well of course the fishing industry us scared because they are disgusting whale murderers.

I expected them to vote as much. Iceland is a tiny country that relies mainly on fishing. And it’s not like the smaller mainland European nations, who heavily rely on their larger neighbors for trade and defense.

The vote also seems to have been prompted by fears of US aggression. Iceland is already in NATO so (on paper) it benefits from collective defense. Joining the EU might cement defense commitments by mainland countries, but Iceland will still need to invest heavily in national defense for that to realistically protect them from a belligerent America.

It's pretty stupid to not even look at the offer EU would make