Island nation moves to restart EU membership talks after Trump's threats

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 25 February 2026 14:18 EST


Iceland is set to hold a referendum "in the coming months" on restarting European Union accession talks, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said Wednesday.

Reykjavik abandoned EU membership talks in 2013 after four years of negotiations, but a rise in the cost of living and the war in Ukraine have helped rekindle the island nation's interest in joining the bloc, opinion polls have shown.

Repeated threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Greenland, which is located between Iceland and the United States, have also made the question of EU membership more pressing for Iceland, which is home to almost 400,000 people.

"In the coming months, we are going to have a referendum on opening up the negotiations, the accession negotiations for Iceland to possibly join the EU," Frostadottir told a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/iceland-eu-membership-talks-referendum-trump-greenland-b2927621.html

[wcmagumba]

1. Sounds like a good idea for Iceland...go towards the EU not the United States of Trump...

[slightlv]

2. I think they're heading towards EU as as hedge AGAINST

US/Trump hegemony. More threat there... I swear, trump wakes up and decides before getting out of bed that bombing "X" country sounds like a great idea... so let's do it!

[Fla Dem]

3. Good. Hope they do it.

[flashman13]

4. I think in the near future Britain will be trying to reenter the EU. Since the U.S. is no long a reliable ally they

will need to move back into the European orbit. Going it alone is not a rational way forward.

[FakeNoose]

5. I believe the British voters are already thinking the same way

Nigel Farge really misled them on a lot of issues....

Kind of like another lying gasbag we're dealing with now.

[BidenRocks]

6. Isn't this what gop/maga want?

A new world order?

Maybe not the way they envisioned.

[Cha]

7. Please Do It, Iceland... Protect your land and

People from the War Mass Homicidal Maniacs.. Traitor & Putin.

TY!

[AZJonnie]

8. Shows how clueless I am, I'd have guessed Iceland was already part of the EU

Hope they join!