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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10166
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/iceland

MEPs want Iceland to join EU and call for good solutions to fishing dispute and Icesave

Brussels, 23/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's foreign affairs committee supports the EU leaders' decision, taken at the 17 June European summit (see EUROPE 10162), to speedily enter EU accession negotiations with Iceland. With its “solid, democratic culture”, it would be beneficial for Iceland to join the EU not only for Iceland itself but also for the EU as a whole, which would thereby be boosted in its vocation of promoting and defending human rights and fundamental...

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