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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11223
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) iceland

Country plans to withdraw its request for EU membership

Brussels, 05/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Sunday 4 January, Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Davio Gunnlaugsson announced that at the start of 2015 his country planned formally to withdraw its application for European Union membership.

“Participating in EU talks isn't really valid anymore”, said the prime minister in a radio interview with Bylgjan. The withdrawal is justified “due to changes in the European Union” and by the fact that the ruling government does not want to accept...

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