WARSAW, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Iceland will in the coming months hold a referendum on joining the European Union, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told a press conference in Poland.
“Over the next few months, we will be working to prepare for the referendum, a referendum on the possible reopening of accession negotiations with the European Union,” she said after meeting with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Reykjavik in 2013 abandoned EU membership talks after four years of negotiations, but a rise in the cost of living and the ongoing war in Ukraine in recent years rekindled the island nation’s interest in joining the bloc, polls have shown.
(Reporting by Essi Lehto, Barbara Erling and Louise Rasmussen, editing by Gwladys Fouche)
