EU candidate country or not?

The Icelandic people are split almost evenly towards the question whether Iceland should be a candidate country for membership of the European Union according to a new opinion poll.

According to the poll, produced by the polling company MMR for the Icelandic think-tank Andríki, 42.5% do not support continued candidacy while 41.6% disagree. Counting only those who either favour continued EU membership candidacy or not 50.5% reject an EU candidacy status while 49.5% are in favour. The margins of error are 3.3%. 

The government of Iceland delivered a letter to the EU last month saying Iceland is no longer a candidate for EU membership and reqesting Brussels to act accordingly.

Most Icelanders, however, reject actual EU membership according to opinion polls. According to the latest one around 50% oppose joining the EU while about a third favours membership.

Re­lated news:

65% want EU referendum

Was the EU bid scrapped or not?

Ice­land for­mally scraps EU bid