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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9858

11 March 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/iceland
Majority support for accession talks

Brussels, 10/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - 64% of Icelanders back opening negotiations on accession to the EU, according to a Capacent Gallup poll published on 9 March (28.2% of those surveyed were against). What is curious is that support for the accession, as such, of their country to the EU is only 39.7%, while 45.5% are against, according to a survey of 1,313 Icelanders, carried out between 11 and 25 February. Social Democrat Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said in February that...

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