Iceland Votes "No" on the Resumption of Negotiations – a Review of Its European History and Prospects

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The government has no intention of reopening accession negotiations with the European Union. This is stated in a letter from Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir that she sent to Helen McEntee, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland, which holds the presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, today due to the result of a referendum on whether Iceland should reopen EU membership negotiations.

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Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir sent a letter to Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee yesterday in which she announced that Iceland does not intend to resume negotiations with the European Union. McEntee is receiving the letter as Ireland holds the presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union. Þorgerður Katrín says in the letter that the government respects the result of last month's referendum. There, a proposal …

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Iceland has just sent a strong message to Brussels. Citizens have refused in referendum to reopen negotiations to enter the European Union: 52.8% voted NO against the 47.2% who voted YES, with an extraordinary participation of 82.5%. And there is a fundamental precision: the Icelanders were not voting directly if [...]

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At a time when a referendum in Iceland was held on 29 August 2026, putting back on the table the resumption of negotiations for a potential accession to the European Union, the "No" finally took it away, freezing all developments. But what exactly does this "No" represent and what history and relationship exactly holds Iceland with the European Union? The EU and its neighbours / Iceland, European Union, Referendum, Accession Process