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submitted 3 weeks ago by perestroika@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

The incoming administration of Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir, which takes over on Sunday, also said it will set up a panel of experts to look into the advantages and disadvantages of retaining the Icelandic crown over adopting the Euro.

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[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Background: Iceland is already a member of the European Economic Area, the European Free Trade Association and the Schengen border control area, and has sent an application for EU membership in 2009.

Accession negotiations proceeded at a careful pace, until the application was withdrawn in 2013 after a change of government.

Discussions about holding a referendum (to decide about restarting negotiations) have been ongoing since 2017.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's already a pretty cashless society (at least it was as a tourist) so the switch to the Euro would be pretty easy.

[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Discussions on retaining ISK over the euro are not based on how difficult it is to swap the currency or change systems that use cash.

It's about retaining control over monetary policy, which is centrally decided in the eurozone.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

What a name, "the daughter of frost"!

Welcome if you chose to join!

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 3 weeks ago

Technically, the daughter of Frostí, which is a recognised masculine name in Iceland. And also her father’s name: they don’t use family names in Iceland (other than about 7 surnames grandfathered from the Danish colonial era, but those are uncommon), and people have one or two given names and a patronym, a system which has so far scaled well enough for Iceland.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact: Germany recently re-introduced patronyms. Technically only applies to Frisians but at least in my state being Frisian is as simple (as far as the state is concerned) as claiming that you are so it's a free for all. So there's again going to be Knut Jansen, son of Jan Peters, son of Peter Larsen. To modernise the whole thing also matronyms are allowed.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

And also her father’s name: they don’t use family names in Iceland

Why is Iceland so based in everything*?

*This is the same system we use in the Arab/Muslim world and I thought only we had it.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I saw the í but well.

It's like the old swedish minister of justice, Gun Hellsvik (hellsweek).

Do they always switch the last name in Iceland? Like many places has "son of" like Svenson in Sweden, but it became a family name so it doesn't change any more.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sweden only made the change gradually about a century ago, with it happening first in urban areas. The merchant Clas Ohlson, after whom the dry goods chain is named, was the son of Olle something-other-than-Ohlson, and the first in his line to make their surname a family name.

Surnames that describe the individual (“son of Olaf”, “the blacksmith”, “from up the river”) work fine in small-scale societies, but are a problem for bureaucracies and other systems. IIRC, a lot of the pressure for standardised family names in Europe was to make things like taxation and conscription more manageable.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I also heard that for a long time people didn't have family names at all, but it became all the rage in like 1700 century or something.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I wish the US could join the EU.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

What makes you think they would want the US to join?

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

Making the world a better place by holding the US to higher standards.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe don't use "Iceland" and "slowly warming" in what seems to be a positive story?

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

You get downmodded but I felt the same way.

At a glance one might read they are literally warming up and want to join the EU for help.

[-] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, if you completely skip every other word in the paragraph and have the reading comprehension of a four year old.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Does not matter. Any good writer would notice how it can be misinterpreted at a glance.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't Iceland and Greenland deliberately named liked this (the oppositeof how they actually are), to cause confusion to medieval sailors? Or is this just an urban legend?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know if the Greenland thing is an urban legend, but Greenland was much greener when the Vikings got there because it was during the Medieval Warm Period.

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