Iceland mulls joining the EU amid strained US relations

Mihaela Chircă

It was apparently meant as a joke but nobody in Iceland found it funny. In January, Billy Long, US President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Nordic island nation joked to some members of the US Congress that Iceland should become the 52nd US state and that he would be governor . There was immediate outrage in Iceland, with the foreign ministry contacting the US embassy for clarification, social media being flooded with negative comments, and thousands of Icelandic citizens in a

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