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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10072

6 February 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/iceland
EU accession talks will take one or two years

Brussels, 05/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - Iceland's prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, met with the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, in Brussels on 4 February 2010. She said that Iceland's accession talks with the EU would take no longer than one or two years because Iceland is already extremely connected with the EU. Judging by accession negotiations for other Scandinavian countries in the early 1990s, Iceland's negotiations would probably be completed within 24...

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