(a) El president d’Islàndia diu al Quebec que la independència és positiva pels països¹

“…Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ha defensat que la independència ‘no pot ser vista mai com un afer negatiu’ i ha defensat el dret dels pobles a decidir el seu futur, sense cap límit.”

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(b) President of Iceland says “independence in itself can never be negative”²

“The small size of a nation is not an obstacle to its success“

“Independence is not just a formality, is determined by the will of the people”

“Independence in itself can never be negative”

“The President recalled that, when the country declared independence in 1944, its population was merely at 160,000, and “many people” said that such a small nation could not exist for long time. But seven decades after that, Grímsson noted, Iceland enjoys a welfare society –one of the world’s best, he argued. Grímsson highlighted the fact that small- and medium-sized countries are on the rise in Europe.”