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The European debate in Iceland is increasingly centred around the status quo or more restricted participation in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen.The coalition government, which firmly supports membership of the EEA and Schengen, is facing a rougher challenge from the two new populist hard-line Eurosecptical parties than from more liberal pro-European parties. The Icelandic Europhiles parties are in danger of losing the platform to the hard-line Eurosceptics if they do not step up their campaign for membership in the EU.
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Thorhallsson, B. (2021). Iceland: Hard-Line Eurosceptics Clash with Eurosceptics. In: Kaeding, M., Pollak, J., Schmidt, P. (eds) Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41272-2_16
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