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“On Social Media, You Don’t Look Each Other in the Eye”: While the Icelandic Population Votes on EU Accession, Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir Stands Out with a New Kind of Politics

Iceland decides today whether it wants to become a member of the EU. The architect of the referendum is Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir (38), who is attracting attention with her atypical approach. She seeks out people, listens, and deliberately uses very little social media. In this way, she hopes to stop the polarization. ‘AD’ went to the Icelandic countryside to see what others can learn from her.

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In the three districts of the interior and the coast, the rejection of Brussels was overwhelming: in the southern constituency, the "no" reached about 60% of the votes.

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Brussels looked hopefully towards the far north, but Iceland seems to have little appetite for a new EU adventure for the time being. A majority of Icelanders is expected to have voted against resuming talks on accession to the European Union. The final result is not yet...

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Iceland decides today whether it wants to become a member of the EU. The architect of the referendum is Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir (38), who is attracting attention with her atypical approach. She seeks out people, listens, and deliberately uses very little social media. In this way, she hopes to stop the polarization. ‘AD’ went to the Icelandic countryside to see what others can learn from her.

·Kobbegem, Belgium
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Iceland decides today whether it wants to become a member of the EU. The architect of the referendum is Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir (38), who is attracting attention with her atypical approach. She seeks out people, listens, and deliberately uses very little social media. In this way, she hopes to stop the polarization. This site traveled to the Icelandic countryside to see what others can learn from her.

·Rotterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Iceland is voting on Saturday if it resumes, after more than a decade of pause, the accession negotiations to the European Union – and would join such a long list of aspirants, from Ukraine and Moldova...

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