Iceland Rescinds Its Bid for EU Membership

March 16, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Iceland recently made public its intention to withdraw its bid for European Union membership. It placed its bid for membership back in 2009, when the financial crisis was at a head. The fall of Lehman Brothers in the United States toppled three of Iceland’s largest banks, so at […]
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