The Spanish and Finnish governments have reached an agreement regarding collateral for a forthcoming bank bailout via the EU.
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Finland and Spain reach bailout collateral deal
Posted on 26 July 2012.
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EU denies Greenland whaling extension bid
Posted on 11 July 2012.
European officials have ruled against a Danish bid to extend Greenland’s indigenous people’s current rights to whaling.
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Majority of Icelanders against joining EU
Posted on 09 May 2012.
A new poll suggests that more than half of Icelanders do not want to join the European Union. The University of Iceland’s Social Science Research Institute polled 1,900 people and found that 54 percent are against assimilation into the 27-country bloc.
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Iceland and Faroe Islands threatened over mackerel dispute with EU
Posted on 20 March 2012.
The EU plans to bring forward its decision on sanctions against Iceland and the Faroe Islands over the ongoing mackerel dispute. Irish officials say it will be difficult to discuss fishing in Iceland’s accession talks before the dispute is resolved.
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European Parliament calls for ‘informed EU discussion’ in Iceland
Posted on 15 March 2012.
The European Parliament yesterday ratified a committee report from February on Iceland’s EU accession talks. The report and parliamentary debate were generally positive on Iceland; although there is concern about the discussion surrounding the EU in the country.
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Iceland FM in intra-coalition EU spat
Posted on 28 February 2012.
Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Social Democratic Minister for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, has ignited controversy within the coalition government with comments that it is much too late for his Left Green colleague, Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson, to now be calling for EU accession talks to be sped up, because he and his allies have [...]
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Iceland ‘mackerel war’ negotiations end in failure
Posted on 17 February 2012.
This week’s Reykjavík mackerel fishing negotiations between Iceland and the Faroe Islands on one side and the EU and Norway on the other have ended without agreement and with the EU’s fishing chief blaming Icelandic and Faroese unwillingness to properly engage in negotiations.
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New ‘mackerel war’ negotiations taking place in Iceland
Posted on 15 February 2012.
Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries, has told the media that he is optimistic for a positive outcome to new mackerel negotiations which began in Reykjavík yesterday.
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