Victory by eurosceptic parties in Iceland's elections has put a question mark over its EU accession process.
With counting well under way on Sunday (28 April), the centre-right Independence party and the centrist Progressive party each took 19 seats in the 63-member Althingi and are expected to form a government.
The ruling Social Democrats and their Left/Green coalition partners were the main losers, with just 16 seats in total.
At the same time, a new pro-European party ca...
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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.