
Iceland Votes on Its European Future With Fisheries and the Arctic at Stake
Icelanders will decide this Saturday whether to reopen EU accession negotiations, suspended since 2013.

Icelanders will decide this Saturday whether to reopen EU accession negotiations, suspended since 2013.

As the Nordic country prepares a referendum on reopening EU accession talks, Brussels has signed a new defence agreement with Reykjavík, anchoring the island more firmly in Europe’s Arctic strategy.

With scientific advice potentially exceeded by a wide margin, Brussels may seek to force further clarification from the agreement’s signatories.
The UK-EU summit started with the surrender of British waters to Brussels.
Foreign-flagged bottom trawlers rob West African fishermen of their livelihood, NGO says.

Fishing group leader says “unbalanced and unworkable European policies” are strangling the industry.

The European Commission confirmed this week that negotiations for a new fisheries agreement have not yet commenced, but any deal is likely to stir the pot on the question of Western Saharan sovereignty and Morocco’s meddling in Spain and the European Parliament.