REYKJAVIK – Iceland’s parliament looked set to vote yesterday on whether the tiny north-Atlantic nation should start negotiations with the European Union on joining the bloc.
The head of the foreign affairs committee, Arni Thor Sigurdsson, told Reuters that members of parliament had agreed to wind up heated debates that had stretched to midnight on Tuesday as soon as possible.
The issue of EU membership shot to the top of the political agenda following an economic meltdown on the rocky island of just 320,000 inhabitants.
– (Reuters)
