Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, whose country is also involved in a dispute with Ukraine over the Druzbha pipeline, offered his support last night. Share Updated at 13.50 GMT15h ago 13.06 GMT Referendum question to be 'Should negotiations on Iceland’s accession to the European Union continue?' The prime minister also said that Iceland is in a “completely different position” to when it originally submitted its application in 2009, and has a much stronger negotiating position, RUV said. The Icelandic prime minister Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir said last week in Warsaw that it was a matter of “months” before the vote would be held. But its deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill has just sharply criticised Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his yesterday’s comment which appeared to be a form of threat against Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán (10:17).

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2026 16:02 UTC