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Iceland is contemplating the potential for voting subsequent 12 months to renew negotiations for full entry into the European Unionin keeping with what was reported by two sources near the accession file. To say it’s Politicoan American on-line newspaper, which primarily offers with politics and glorious protection of European affairs, in an article by Zoya Sheftalovich, the newspaper’s chief correspondent for Europe.

The relaunch of Iceland’s accession course of comes at a time when momentum for EU enlargement seems to be rising, with Brussels engaged on a plan that might grant Ukraine partial membership of the bloc as early as subsequent 12 months and with membership favourite Montenegro closing one other chapter in negotiations final month.

Acceleration after threats of tariffs from the USA

The authorities coalition in Reykjavík, writes Politico, had promised to carry a referendum on the restart of EU accession negotiations by 2027, after the earlier authorities had frozen the negotiations in 2013. However, the timetable has been accelerated at a time of geopolitical upheavals and following Washington’s resolution to impose customs duties on Iceland and US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the Greenland.

Iceland’s parliament is anticipated to announce the vote date inside the subsequent few weeks, in keeping with two individuals who requested anonymity to talk freely. The transfer comes after a sequence of visits by EU politicians to Iceland and Icelandic politicians to Brussels. If Icelanders vote sure, they might be part of the EU earlier than some other candidate nation, stated one of many sources consulted by the US newspaper.

According to the European Commission, the talk on enlargement is not simply financial however strategic. The president Ursula von der Leyen He known as cooperation with Iceland an element of stability in a unstable international context. In the occasion of a good final result of the referendum, Iceland may turn out to be the subsequent nation to hitch the EU, earlier than different official candidates.