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Icelanders keep cool over EU membership (AFP)

August 2nd, 2010

A boat rests in a church yard on July 30, 2010 in Sandgerdi, Iceland. European Union foreign ministers gave the go-ahead on July 26, 2010 to open membership negotiations with Iceland, but amid growing doubts about public support on the island.(AFP/Halldor Kolbeins)AFP - Formal talks have started over Iceland’s entry into the European Union, but Icelanders remain cool at the prospect as differences over fishing and revived national pride trump EU enthusiasm.


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