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Vilborg Ása Guðjónsdóttir

Vilborg Ása Guðjónsdóttir

Icelandic researcher and commentator on Greenlandic affairs, Iceland-EU relations, and Icelandic foreign policy, and a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Iceland.

Aug 21, 2026

11:52
Þú veist en ég meina finnst þér eh, kemur það þér á óvart að þú veist íslensk stjórnvöld séu kannski ekki að gera eins mikið mál úr þessu
12:01
þessuNúna og og já en en þau gætu gert.
12:06
Svona gagnvart Bandaríkjunum.
12:08
Ég held mér finnst það mjög skiljanlegt.
12:10
Ég meina auðvitað er öll Evrópa að vona að vestræn sameina haldi.

20 MINS LATER

32:30
Uh en þarna eru líka hafa eru bændur líka að kalla eftir einhvers konar varanlegum undanþágum til þess að koma í veg fyrir eða hitt og þetta hvað-
6:53
Was that shorthand for Greenland? Has Greenland had big traction in, in Iceland as an issue?
6:59
We have, we have followed this very closely, yes.
7:02
Um, and, uh, another specialty of mine actually is Greenland, so I've been in the media discussing this specifically.
7:09
And it got a lot of interest, but I feel that maybe perhaps Icelanders don't see, don't find it likely that this will happen to us in a way, that we could get the same treatment from the US president as Greenland.
7:23
And also, this hasn't been in the limelight since late January, early February, so there hasn't been a lot, like for the last six months it's been super quiet, and perhaps many believe that this is out of the question, you know, that it's not on the table anymore, but that's obviously not the case.
7:39
It's, it's kind of only an interim period.
7:42
We don't know how it would, will develop.
9:56
I- is it having, uh, is it having an effect? And, and who is pushing it? Is it, is it, are the unions pushing it? Are the, are the employers federations? Who, who is making that case most strongly?

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