Iceland set to vote on restarting EU accession negotiations

On Friday, the Icelandic government proposed holding a referendum on August 29 on resuming negotiations on accession to the European Union. This was reported by the public television station RÚV, citing Foreign Minister Katrín Gunnarsdóttir.

Reykjavík suspended talks on EU membership in 2013 after four years of negotiations. In recent years, however, the island nation’s interest in joining the bloc has grown again. According to surveys, this is mainly due to rising living costs and the war in Ukraine.

According to the report, the issue of EU membership has also been raised by repeated statements by US President Donald Trump about the possibility of annexing Greenland, which is located between Iceland and the United States. The North Atlantic country has a population of almost 400,000.

(reuters, lud)