Trump's Arctic rhetoric boosts Iceland's pro-EU campaign, organisers say

Donald Trump's repeated statements about US ambitions in the Arctic and around Greenland are, according to campaign organisers, strengthening the case made by Iceland's pro-EU campaign ahead of the country's membership referendum. Yes-side campaigners point to EU membership as a way to bolster Iceland's security against great-power pressure in the North Atlantic, an unusual instance of American foreign policy reshaping the EU's own enlargement debate.

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