Why Icelandic Voters Just Rejected European Union Negotiations
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The narrow rejection of renewing negotiations on Iceland's entry into the European Union is a victory for the influential fishing industry and a blow to major expansion plans.
Straubinger Tagblatt: Straubing (ots) - For the EU, the result of the vote is a waste. Iceland would have been a profit: democratically stable, prosperous, closely linked to the internal market and strategically important in the North Atlantic and the Arctic. If such a ...
Iceland will not resume negotiations on joining the EU under the current government, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadouttir said
Iceland will not resume negotiations on joining the EU under the current government, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadouttir has said.On August 29, the country held a referendum on resuming negotiations on joining the European Union. After the votes...
In a referendum the Icelanders vote against accession negotiations with the EU. The result tells at least as much about Europe as about Iceland.
The majority of Icelanders voted against accession negotiations with the EU in a referendum, and fishermen and farmers in particular feared a loss of autonomy.
The Guardian has examined in a report the factors that shaped the outcome of Iceland's referendum on EU accession negotiations.
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