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poiuytrewq0987
02-17-2010, 03:05 PM
The European Commission will recommend next week that the European Union begins accession talks with Iceland, an EU official said, as cited by the online edition EurActiv.

The move will launch a process that Reykjavik hopes will lead to EU membership by 2012.

Iceland, an island of 320,000 people in the far north of Europe, had been reluctant to join the bloc for decades and only applied last year when the global financial crisis devastated its banking system.

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Liffrea
02-18-2010, 10:02 AM
Let’s pray Iceland tell the EU where to stick their ultimatum err membership.

The Lawspeaker
02-18-2010, 10:03 AM
Poor little Iceland...

Monolith
02-18-2010, 12:23 PM
I was always really fond of Island and its people. Too bad this is the end of life as they knew it.