Why Iceland Said No to Europe
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Throughout the 1990s and the first decade of the new century, Iceland chose to stay out of the European Union, becoming instead a founder member of the European Economic Area (EEA), a much looser arrangement that grants access to the single market without membership of the Union. And on August 29, Icelanders voted to keep things that way, rejecting their government’s proposal to reopen accession negotiations with the EU: 52.8 percent against, 47.2 percent in favor, on a turnout of 82.5 pe
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