Iceland to the EU: A safe trip?

Abstract

After a review of the historical background of the relations between Iceland and the European Union, this article examines to what extent this country’s profile, from an objective and subjective perspective, could favour a possible accession to the block. Later, the manifestations and the consequences of the 2008 economic crisis are analysed, showing that this episode gave a new breath to its European path. The last part emphasizes the facts that impair the present narrowing of relations between Reykjavik and the Union, concluding that they are very likely to put this process out of track.