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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9946

23 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/iceland
Accession request to be presented in Stockholm this Thursday - Council may ask Commission for its opinion next Monday

Brussels, 22/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - This Thursday 23 July, Icelandic Foreign Affairs Minister Össur Skarphédinsson will officially present his country's request for accession to the EU at a meeting with his Swedish opposite number (and current President of the Council EU), Carl Bildt, in Stockholm. Last Friday 17 July, the day after the historic vote of the Icelandic parliament, where a small majority of MPs authorised the government to start accession negotiations (EUROPE 9944),...

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