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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10764

16 January 2013
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) iceland
Pace of negotiations slows before elections

Brussels, 15/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 14 January, the Icelandic government announced a slowdown in the pace of accession negotiations with the EU due to the upcoming parliamentary elections on 27 April. “We knew, when we finished the main part of the work in December and opened six difficult chapters, that we were going to slow down the accession negotiations in order to leave the campaign the room it needs”, Icelandic Foreign Affairs Minister Össur Skarphedinsson told the...

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