> As net contributor, they may have more sway than their size would suggest.

probably true. Hungary, as a staunch illiberal net _benefactor_ still managed to have some veto-style influence over things.

denlillaapan

Honestly, a small fish(!) in a large, bureaucratic pond, you wouldn't be much of a rulemaker 

As net contributor, they may have more sway than their size would suggest.

I'm not sure why they'd want to be paying for being that little-bit-more-equal than all other equal states, and making everyone somewhat equally poor in the long run, but I'm all for their people having the right to drive their country over a cliff if they so choose.

Knowing EU tactics, though, I suspect they'll just keep voting until the Icelandic people get the result the EU wants.

Politics_And_Law

econ

Will Iceland Join the EU? (FT, Constanze Stelzenmüller)

> Honestly, a small fish(!) in a large, bureaucratic pond, you wouldn't be much of a rulemaker *inside* EU either.

As net contributor, they may have more sway than their size would suggest.

I'm not sure why they'd want to be paying for being that little-bit-more-equal than all other equal states, and making everyone somewhat equally poor in the long run, but I'm all for their people having the right to drive their country over a cliff if they so choose.

Knowing EU tactics, though, I suspect they'll just keep voting until the Icelandic people get the result the EU wants.