Iceland votes against restarting EU membership talks

Iceland's Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir said the issue would not be reed while her government remained in power Iceland has voted against resuming talks on joining the European Union 13 years after they were broken off.

Already part of the EU's single market and Schengen border-free zone, full EU membership would bring Iceland into the customs union and eventually the eurozone currency union." A Yes vote would not have been a final decision on joining the EU, but a move towards an accession agreement, which would then have to be approved by a second referendum.