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Premier Wants Iceland to Join European Union

The New York Times. By John F. Burns, April 26 2009

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Buoyed by an election victory that gave a strong popular mandate to her three-month-old caretaker government, Iceland’s prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, told cheering supporters early Sunday that she would move to protect the country’s battered economy by applying for membership in the European Union as soon as possible.