There is still a majority against applying for EU membership and starting membership negotiations among Icelanders according to the results of a new poll for the Icelandic daily Fréttablaðið published on April 11th. 54,4% are now opposed to applying while 45,6% are in favour.

This is a slightly less support for sending an application to Brussels than a month ago when 46,6% favoured that step. A month ago 53,9% were opposed to applying for EU membership.

The poll was conducted on April 7. 800 people were asked, 77,5% responded to the question asked which was: “Should Iceland apply for membership of the European Union?”

News story: “Fækkar heldur sem styðja viðræður” (.pdf), Fréttablaðið April 11, 2009

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The “EU news from Iceland” is a blog which reports news on the debate in Iceland on whether the country should apply for a membership of the European Union or not. The blog’s editor is Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson who also is the managing director of Heimssýn, the Icelandic organisation opposing EU membership.

The blog was originally launched few years back but has not been updated for a while. Now the blog has been restored and will be updated on a regular basis whenever something newsworthy happens in Iceland regarding the EU issue.

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Heimssýn, the Icelandic No movement