Marta Kos
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm positive because I see movement.
I also see movement on the other side of the opponents who do not want Iceland to come back to the accession process.
But it's important to know this is only the referendum.
If Iceland would come back to the accession process, it is not about the membership yet.
So I'm happy to see the numbers in some surveys that more than 50% of people would be happy to come back.
But if they would decide to come back, they would have to start from zero, meaning they would have to apply for the EU membership.
The EU member states would have to give their candidate status back.
Only then me and my team would be able to do the technical work.
So this is the difference with Iceland.
Iceland is still having the candidate status.
So we could technically go on.
For UK, we would have to have a green light from EU 2017.
Indeed, but personally, I would be very happy to have them back.
You know, we never liked them going out.
No, you know, this is not automatism.
So if there are many members of the EU where they have no euro, like Poland or some other country, so this is not automatism.
You can be a member of the EU without having euro.
On the long run, yes.
But still, you know, we have Denmark, one of the most pro-enlargement member states, and they are not, and economically successful, they don't have Euro.
You know, we are concerned, and I can understand also why your citizens are concerned.