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Question: Will Iceland and Norway ever join the EU?
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Iceland, but not Norway
 
#2
Norway, but not Iceland
 
#3
Both
 
#4
None of them
 
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Total Voters: 178

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DavidB.
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« Reply #75 on: May 30, 2017, 08:07:41 AM »

Social Democrats being the only political force opposed to repealing restrictions on blasphemy. What a time to be alive.

Completely agree with Frederiksen's line of reasoning, by the way.
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« Reply #76 on: June 10, 2017, 11:29:59 AM »

Halla-aho elected on the first round of voting. Halla-aho 56% of the votes, Sampo Terho 37%.
Excellent news, wow!
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« Reply #77 on: June 12, 2017, 02:30:27 PM »

Breaking news: following discussions between Jussi Halla-aho and the leaders of the Centre Party, Prime Minister Sipilä, and the National Coalition Party, Finance Minister Petteri Orpo, Sipilä and Orpo have issued a joint statement where they say that they cannot continue in the government coalition with Halla-aho's Finns Party.

According to Halla-aho, he had been ready to honour the government platform of 2015 but demanded that it's immigration part (which, for example, called for Finland to oppose the EU's mandatory refugee reallocation scheme, tighten family reunification criteria etc.) be fully implemented. Sipilä and Orpo did not agree to this.

Most people think Sipilä will now try to form a new coalition with the NCP, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats. They would only have the slimmest majority. He will try to avoid a new election because the Centre Party is no longer leading the opinion polls. SDP and the Greens have previously said that they won't go to the government without a new election. Left Alliance is off the table.

Speaking as a Finns Party supporter: at least this shows that Halla-aho had the backbone to refuse being a doormat to the NCP and Centre, which is what Soini had been for two years.
Yes, I completely agree: being outside the government is absolutely preferable to being inside a government that doesn't bother to keep its promises on the issues that are most dear to PS, and Halla-aho's demands sound more than reasonable. It is important, however, that the Finns don't burn all of their bridges now; while they may need some time in opposition, they should eventually want to influence policy from within the government again, even if that may not necessarily be after the next election. Halla-aho fortunately isn't as spineless as Soini, but he shouldn't become as untouchable as Wilders either.
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« Reply #78 on: June 13, 2017, 02:28:05 PM »
« Edited: June 13, 2017, 02:30:21 PM by DavidB. »

Well, after taking in the number of immigrants Finland did and continuing to sell out to the EU, it was long clear that Soini and his lackeys were there only to further their careers. Very shameful and good riddance, time to rebuild the party without these weasels. Just like nobody was interested in the Finns under Soini anymore, nobody will be interested in a "New Alternative" without a vision. Time for a real alternative instead. Godspeed, Jussi.
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« Reply #79 on: June 19, 2017, 08:34:05 AM »

The defectors have now been officially expelled from the Finns Party. After thinking about their name for a while, the defectors have decided that "New Alternative" is not that good of a name after all: they have founded a new party called "Blue Reform" in English (though the Finnish name, "Sininen tulevaisuus" literally means "Blue Future"). They now have to gather 5,000 signatures in order to become a registered party. I do not predict a bright future for them.
Named it after their balls because their wives had somebody else.
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« Reply #80 on: January 21, 2018, 09:23:21 AM »

What is Messerschmidt up to? Always liked him.
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« Reply #81 on: February 18, 2018, 07:42:37 PM »

Iceland is banning male circumcision.
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« Reply #82 on: March 18, 2018, 11:14:53 AM »

Yeah, Diouf, your updates are absolutely invaluable.
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« Reply #83 on: March 18, 2018, 02:10:10 PM »
« Edited: March 18, 2018, 02:14:07 PM by DavidB. »

I have some experience with Danish and understand written Danish quite well, I have also analyzed Danish-language political content during my studies. It's spoken Danish that's difficult to me, though still much easier than spoken Swedish Smiley But I won't shy away from reading Danish sources in case you link them. I'm not impressed by the quality of TheLocal, to put it mildly.
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« Reply #84 on: April 03, 2018, 05:42:29 PM »

Interesting and encouraging that PS do better with young voters than on average. Did not expect KESK to do so well with that demographic though. Which young voters would vote for KESK?
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« Reply #85 on: May 17, 2018, 11:40:14 AM »

A very informative paper on the Social Democrats' new immigration policies from Peter Nedergaard, PolSci professor from Copenhagen University.

https://www.academia.edu/36536231/Back_to_the_roots_Why_has_the_Danish_Social_Democratic_Party_changed_course_back_to_a_more_restrictive_immigration_policy
Thanks for this, very interesting!
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DavidB.
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« Reply #86 on: July 02, 2018, 04:16:03 PM »

I don't think this is a bad or particularly strange idea at all. Crimes are going to have a different social impact in different areas. It seems wise to adapt the punishment to this.
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« Reply #87 on: July 02, 2018, 06:47:57 PM »

Way too broad and subjective a question.
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« Reply #88 on: July 05, 2018, 07:21:28 AM »

Fully expecting PS to be getting 15%> of the vote in the end.
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« Reply #89 on: September 21, 2018, 10:02:01 AM »

As for LA, I think they would have been much more willing to join ECR if DF had not been there...
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« Reply #90 on: February 19, 2019, 08:06:24 AM »
« Edited: February 19, 2019, 09:27:26 AM by DavidB. »

So Riskaer Pedersen will probably mostly attract Liberal/RV/LA voters?

Given that the government still hasn't called an election, would it be in late April at the earliest now? Or perhaps together with the EP elections?

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