Iceland votes to reject proposal to begin negotiations to rejoin the European Union

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : There was also reported uneasiness about converting the country's currency from the Icelandic krona to the EU's euro.
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51% : If Icelanders had voted in the affirmative and supported the referendum, there would still have been no guarantee that the country would have joined the European Union.
49% : Icelanders reasserted their desire to remain out of the European Union, voting against a referendum that would have initiated negotiations to join the supranational union.
48% : Either we enter these negotiations, seek a good agreement, and then see what happens, or we put the discussion about the European Union aside, at least for the time being."
48% : Advertisement The vote not to join the European Union comes 13 years after its last flirtation with doing so in 2013.
45% : After the economic hardships following the 2008 global financial crisis, Icelanders rejected a measure to join the EU, citing sovereignty concerns over the nation's preeminent export: its fisheries.
43% : Among the reasons believed to be at the core of the vote against joining the EU, in addition to the fisheries concern, was apprehension that the small Nordic island country, with a population of only 400,000, would not be adequately represented and that its concerns would be ignored due to its small size.
38% : Discussions to join the EU would lose momentum and eventually fizzle out.

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