Adaptation Started?
The Minister of Fishing and Agriculture in Iceland, Jón Bjarnarson, has told Icelandic media that the first steps towards joining the EU are already underway. Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Minister of Finance, says that this is not the case, and there must be some sort of a misunderstanding on Bjarnarsson's behalf. Sigfússon says that talks regarding how Iceland's agriculture will adapt if Iceland is to join the EU have begun, but that's as far as anything has gotten at this point in time. Sigfússon adds, that if Bjarnarson is correct, and an adaptation period has begun - he does not condone the action.

All returns to Icesave
The big Icesave crisis has still not been dealt with, and little as nothing has been heard about what will happen next since before the General Elections in the UK earlier this summer. Sigfússon confirms that no date has been set for the next Icesave meeting, but it is set for sometime in September.

With a new coalition government in power in the UK, and nearly two years since the collapse of the Icelandic banks, I wonder if this "next" meeting will ever really happen. I understand that people are still out of money, but Iceland definitely doesn't have it. And if the Icesave dispute never really gets resolved - will Iceland forever stay on a "waiting list" for an EU membership?



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