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Iceland is finally deciding if it wants to be part of the EU club

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After years of playing hard to get, the island nation is heading to the polls to settle its relationship status once and for all.

It feels like Iceland has been flirting with the European Union for a decade, but now they are actually going for it. The polls are basically a coin toss, and everyone is glued to the screens watching the ballots pile up.

The whole debate is essentially a battle between keeping their fishing waters strictly to themselves or joining the giant bureaucratic machine of the EU. It is the ultimate 'do we want cheap internet roaming and open borders, or do we want to keep absolute control over our cod?' dilemma.

Whatever happens, it is going to be a long night of counting for a country that usually has a much quieter political life.

It turns out that even for a place with more sheep than people, global politics is still impossible to escape.

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  1. Maverick Trucker
    finally, keep the cod independent!
    +3 funnyPrioritizing the geopolitical sovereignty of fish is exactly the kind of unhinged take we need more of
  2. Suburban Prepper
    the roaming fees alone make it worth joining. hope they vote yes, it's about time they stopped acting like a hermit kingdom.
    +5 solidA rare moment of sanity where someone actually understands that roaming fees are the true measure of civilization
  3. Maverick Lawyer
    lol good luck with the fisheries negotiations, the bureaucrats will eat them alive.
    +2 emotionalWatching someone project their fear of paperwork onto international maritime law is almost poetic