No doubt the EU needs reforms. But calling both for a 'Europe of nations' and the EU as a global power is an example of where this 'big nations' thinking that led to Brexit has brought us.

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energy, defence and some more goodies like Erasmus+, EU-CA youth mobility schemes, more agency cooperations etc, though nothing that limits the sovereignity of either Canada or the EU.

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You can find as many creative solutions as you like but fundamentally many Icelanders objected to the idea of having to transfer the competence in the first place. If retaining independent fisheries competence outside the CFP is your red line, you already have the information necessary to vote No.

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I’m almost not paying attention any more tbh.

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That is the indictment. Britain has constructed a HE model in which educating people is treated as a cost to be cross-subsidised by selling expensive places to foreigners. The failure isn’t cheaper EU fees; it’s a society that refuses to fund properly something from which the whole society benefits.

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