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Iceland has slowly recovered from a crippling banking collapse (Photo: smcgee)

Iceland election result puts EU membership in doubt

Victory by eurosceptic parties in Iceland's elections has put a question mark over its EU accession process.

With counting well under way on Sunday (28 April), the centre-right Independence party and the centrist Progressive party each took 19 seats in the 63-member Althingi and are expected to form a government.

The ruling Social Democrats and their Left/Green coalition partners were the main losers, with just 16 seats in total.

At the same time, a new pro-European party ca...

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Iceland has slowly recovered from a crippling banking collapse (Photo: smcgee)

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