by
Ramin Mazaheri
Part
4 - Just for fun – remember Iceland?
And yet to
be against the European project makes you a racist, jingoistic,
hillbilly, deplorable….
Iceland –
which we all looked at with horror in 2009, assuming they would be in
debt for generations AND also living on what must be a frozen and
lonely speck of an island – has just been declared the “3rd
happiest country” according to the UN.
I guess
Iceland is a bunch of deplorable racists, because they cancelled
their plans to join the EU. Well, Iceland has one thing which Marx
valued perhaps above all: the right to determine their own destiny in
order to fulfill their potential:
“‘Surely
there is no room for small sovereign countries in this globalized
world,’ I was told by another finance minister during a break in a
Eurogroup meeting. ‘Iceland can never truly be sovereign,’ he
concluded….However limited these choices might be, Iceland’s body
politic retains absolutely authority to hold its elected officials
accountable for the decisions they have reached within the nation’s
exogenous constraints and to strike down every piece of legislation
that it has decided upon in the past. In this sense, small, powerless
Iceland continues to enjoy full sovereignty while the comparatively
omnipotent European Union has been stripped of all forms of
sovereignty.”
It’s a
pretty bad scene when you can’t even stand up for yourself as much
as an Icelander….
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