Ad
Iceland's GDP per capita is back to pre-crisis level, making EU membership less attracitve. (Photo: Christine Zenino)

Iceland says final EU goodbye

Iceland definitively dropped its EU membership bid on Thursday (12 March), nearly six years after having made the demand.

"The government of Iceland has no intentions to resume accession talks", country’s foreign affair minister, Gunnar Sveinsson, wrote in a letter to enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn and Latvia’s foreign affairs minister Edgars Rinkevics.

Talks were suspended in May 2013 after a centre-right coalition, opposed to EU membership, had come to power.

By th...

Get EU news that matters

Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting member

Already a member? Login here
Iceland's GDP per capita is back to pre-crisis level, making EU membership less attracitve. (Photo: Christine Zenino)

Tags

Ad

Related articles

Ad
Ad