Jack Power
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first heard Jun 2026
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So that's of most concern and concern.
the biggest point of anxiety of what would this mean for fisheries?
Because at the moment, in their current relationship with the EU, they basically have an opt-out that says, yeah, we're part of the European economic area, but not when it comes to fisheries.
So you'll imagine that there'll be quite a lot of pretty contentious haggling between Brussels and Reykjavik over where exactly the line is drawn, you know, how much extent Iceland would have to open up its fishing waters to...
trawlers from EU member states and you can imagine the sensitivities there.
Yeah, and I think most people recognise that, you know, Iceland probably wouldn't be able to get, as you say, an a la carte to opt out to the fish to say, oh, well, we like everything else.
But, you know, on this one point, we're not joining because, you know, that's not really how, you know, the EU's single market and the principle of the whole thing works.
You can't have it all your way.
So the question is, what kind of
And I think it's probably fair to say, you know, Brussels isn't keen about starting these renegotiations because it wants, it's going after Icelandic fishing waters.
It's keen to restart these negotiations from a more wider geopolitical perspective.
You know, the big orange shadow that's looming over everything is the Trump factor.
And I think that has in some way played a part in Iceland and others, as you said, Norway, even Canada, too.
I mean, they're not in a queue to join the EU, but there has been a reordering of people's, you know, just how people and governments see the world and see their partnerships, their alliances, because of how much Donald Trump has contributed.
taken a wrecking ball to the old traditional alliances, the Western Alliance, the Transatlantic Alliance, that really would have underpinned much of the world economy and the world kind of Western security infrastructure for the last, you know, how many years?
I think one of the things that Norway in particular are worried about is that if Iceland votes in August to say, OK, let's kick off negotiations, as I said, those would probably be pretty quick.
You know, maybe it'll take a year, it'll take two years.
You're not looking at the kind of scenario that you have when states from the Western Balkans, you know, spend a decade, two decades trying to put in place the reforms and the economic reforms
modernization required to join the EU.
So Iceland, there's a pretty good acceptance that it would move pretty quickly.
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