Icelanders reject EU-accession talks, broadcaster RUV reports

REYKJAVIK: Icelanders have voted to stay out of the European Union, broadcaster RUV reported on Sunday (Aug 30), rejecting a government push to reopen membership talks and siding with those who said Iceland's fishing waters were too important to risk.Some votes from one constituency are pending but these were not expected to change the outcome, RUV said.A 'no' vote would disappoint Brussels, as some officials had cast the island nation of 400,000 as a low-risk case that could ease scepticism toward EU enlargement and strategically strengthen the bloc when Arctic security is in focus.The government has framed membership as a shield against trade wars and Arctic rivalry and presented the referendum as a "now or never" moment, with Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir warning that a "no" woul