Negotiations more difficult than expected

Given the Icelanders' EU scepticism and their bankrupt Icesave bank the daily Delo foresees difficulties with the country's membership talks with the EU: "There are many awkward issues, perhaps even more than Iceland's Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson expects for the accession negotiations, where the EU member countries will impose special conditions (see Icesave bank). Iceland may not have knocked at the EU's door empty-handed: in addition to its key geostrategic situation the country is prepared to contribute its knowledge and experience on the introduction of renewable energies, an area where Iceland already surpasses even the EU's boldest plans. But as the negotiations begin it's difficult to shrug off the unpleasant feeling that a sad epilogue will follow the dialogue that was initiated with such great ambitions and intentions on both sides."

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