Tag: Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson

• Friday, March 13th 2015 - 14:35 UTC

  Iceland drops EU membership request; it had suspended the bid in 2013

  

  The government of Iceland has announced it is no longer seeking EU membership for the North Atlantic state. Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson said he had already informed current EU president Latvia and the European Commission about the cabinet's move.