Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Iceland's Minister of Finance and chairman of the junior coalition partner the Left Green Movement, said on Tuesday (October 27) at the Nordic Council’s 61st Session in Stockholm that although his government had applied to join the European Union the Icelandic people didn't want to become members. Sigfússon was responding to a question directed to him about the situation of Iceland's EU application.
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Spurð um afstöðu Íslands til ESB (Ríkisútvarpið October 27, 2009)