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Icelanders Go to Polls in EU Membership Talks Referendum
Polls are tight as voters weigh a nonbinding step that could revive talks over membership and reopen long-running fisheries and sovereignty disputes.
- On Saturday, voters in Iceland will cast ballots in a referendum asking whether the country should resume accession negotiations with the European Union, more than a decade after talks were frozen.
- Iceland's coalition government initiated the referendum following security threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Greenland, reviving accession talks that a previous eurosceptic government unilaterally ended in 2015.
- Fishing accounts for around 40% of Iceland's exports, with officials demanding "sovereign control over all fisheries." Households struggling with 8% interest rates view eurozone membership as potential economic relief.
- Polls remain tight, with one survey showing 51.3% support for "Yes" versus 51.6% for "No." Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir characterized the vote as an "opportunity, not a final decision" on membership.
- Amid shifting global trade dynamics, Prime Minister Frostadóttir noted, "The EU is looking around, it's finishing deals with India, with Mercosur." She argued that international cooperation provides safer security for the island.
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