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After a 10yr pause in negotiations for Iceland to join the EU, Kristrún Frostadóttir (Iceland's PM) has given a pretty strong hint to the FT that she'd like to see a relatively prompt referendum on restarting negotiations & any potential membership driven by economic logic... nothing to do with Trump's recent remarks about the Arctic, of course...
As with the UK possibly (re)joining, there's a lot of work to be done to convince EU members (but in this case perhaps an easier sell?)
Funny, in a sick sense of the word, how #authoritarian leaders are driving the growth of #NATO and the #EU.
@ChrisMayLA6 I read somewhere the main reason why Iceland and Norway never joined the EU (and the UK could swing either way) was that the common fisheries policy was unfavourable to producers. So Iceland saying they would join the EU if the economics worked costs nothing for them because that has always been the situation.
@ChrisMayLA6 Though I doubt fisheries are really that important for the UK economically (as opposed to politically) But the point probably still works for Iceland.
Indeed, but equally it may indicate a reordering politically.... i.e. fisheries now seem less important than the wider socio-political solidarity as an EU member?