{"id":1158767,"date":"2026-08-20T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1158767\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:56:32","slug":"fish-ships-and-sovereignty-iceland-weighs-its-european-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1158767\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish, ships and sovereignty: Iceland weighs its European future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN\/REYKJAVIK \u2013 Gylfi Geirsson and Sigurbjorn Svavarsson cut British fishing trawl wires and dodged Royal Navy frigates on board small Icelandic coast guard vessels 50 years ago, using guerrilla-style tactics to keep foreign fleets out of their waters.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland won the series of confrontations known as the Cod Wars, and control of those waters became the foundation of the volcanic island\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Half a century later, the fear of losing control is at the heart of an Aug.\u00a029 referendum on whether to reopen membership talks with the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN\/REYKJAVIK \u2013 Gylfi Geirsson and Sigurbjorn Svavarsson cut British fishing trawl wires and dodged Royal Navy frigates on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1158768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,7059],"class_list":["post-1158767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-iceland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117126062893826536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}