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The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has declared on Thursday that the EU will launch interviews on a safety and protection partnership with Iceland.
“Cooperating extra intently on the response to hybrid threats, on civil safety and protected communications,” stated Von der Leyen in a spot on X after a press convention in Keflavík with the Icelandic Prime Minister Kristún Frostadóttir.
Frostadóttir stated she hopes that the talks finish by the top of the yr.
“This is essential for us to exhibit that we will have a cooperation on vital infrastructures, civil safety, any kind of double use protection funding and this additionally consists of hybrid and IT threats,” he stated.
This settlement with the EU is unbiased of the adhesion to the Icelandic NATO and the present protection agreements with the United States, stated the Rúv nationwide public broadcaster.
“With this settlement, Iceland has additionally entered European safety and defines cooperation,” stated Von der Leyen.
“There are already eight allied nations, together with Norway, the United Kingdom and Canada. With this settlement, you’ll have entry to our protected mission, which invests round 150 billion euros per yr in security and protection”.
During the assembly, Fostadóttir additionally said {that a} full revision of the industrial circumstances of Iceland with the European Union, introduced in December 2023, will quickly start.
The Icelandic authorities declared in December that goals to ask the query of adhesion to the EU to a referendum by 2027.
The administration of FROSADóttir additionally said that he would set up a bunch of specialists to look at the benefits and drawbacks of the upkeep of the Icelandic crown for the adoption of the euro.
According to a survey carried out final June by the Maskína market analysis firm, assist for EU membership among the many Icelandic inhabitants is rising.
That survey discovered that simply over 54% of the interviewees was in favor of becoming a member of the blockade, with the bulk that claimed to imagine that households can be financially higher as a part of the EU.
This was a major swing in favor of becoming a member of a rustic that was usually ambivalent in being a part of the EU.
