{"id":161002,"date":"2026-02-27T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=161002"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:26:54","slug":"iceland-a-new-step-towards-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/iceland-a-new-step-towards-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland: A new step towards the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland will hold a referendum in the coming months on whether to resume negotiations on its membership of the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Kristr\u00fan Frost\u00e1d\u00f3ttir announced during a visit to Poland.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will hold a referendum in the coming months to determine whether Iceland should start negotiations on its membership of the EU,\u201d Prime Minister Frost\u00e1d\u00f3ttir said at a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on February 25.<br \/>\nIceland withdrew from EU membership talks in 2013 after four years of negotiations. However, according to a survey, the rising cost of living has renewed the desire of the islanders to return to the EU.<br \/>\nIceland is already a member of the EU\u2019s single market, the Schengen area and the European Free Trade Association. The country, with a population of around 400,000, is also a member of NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland will hold a referendum in the coming months on whether to resume negotiations on its membership of the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Kristr\u00fan Frost\u00e1d\u00f3ttir announced during a visit to Poland. \u201cWe will hold a referendum in the coming months to determine whether Iceland should start negotiations on its membership of the EU,\u201d Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161003,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161002\/revisions\/161003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media\/160979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}