10/28/2008

Iceland PM: EU membership as before not on the agenda

At a press meeting on Tuesday October 27 in the Finnish capital of Helsinki Iceland's Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, underlined his government's policy that membership of the European Union is not on the agenda. The task ahead is to restore the Icelandic economy he said and the right time for a debate whether or not Iceland should apply for EU membership is not during the reconstruction.