Opposition leaders in the Icelandic parliament have put their differences aside to announce that they consider their country is still an official candidate for EU accession. This has been confirmed in a joint letter to Johannes Hahn, commissioner for enlargement, and Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament. On 15 March, several thousand Icelanders demonstrated against Iceland’s withdrawal of its candidacy, announced by the right-wing government three days earlier.
The four opposition party leaders point out that Foreign Affairs Minister…