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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9766

22 October 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/iceland

21/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Olli Rehn (enlargement) said that if Iceland submitted its EU candidacy, accession negotiations could be “rapidly” carried out. The commissioner informed AFP that “Iceland is clearly a democratic European country, which is already part of the European economic area”. Nonetheless, he noted that the country's integration into European fisheries policy could pose a problem. The financial crisis has reawakened the debate on the country's possible...

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