Þetta skrifar Robert Wade um Ísland, fullveldið og ESB:

“… strong political consensus has united
groups across the political spectrum against membership in the
European Union.

Whereas most other nations have modified their
implicit concept of sovereignty to include as an important component
the right to participate in international organizations and sit
at the table where regional and global decisions are being made, a
majority of Icelanders have stuck to an older notion of sovereignty
as freedom from outside infl uence—freedom to remain “special” in
the ranks of nations.

The leader of the Left-Green political party
said in 2000, “Membership [in the EU] would mean diminished
independence and sovereignty, loss of speciality.”

A prominent
Left-Green politician echoed him, saying that “membership in the
EU will undermine Iceland’s self rule.”

Toward the other end of the
political spectrum, then prime minister David Oddsson declared in
2002 that the EU was “one of the most undemocratic bureaucratic
monsters man has ever created.”

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