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00:30But the country's foreign affairs minister Katrin Gunnarsdottir denied those claims
00:35Which prompted the press to admit that the story had been largely misreported
00:40Yet it touched a sensitive nerve
00:43Control over fishing grounds is fiercely guarded in Iceland
00:46And joining the EU would likely mean giving up part of its quota
00:51So first of all, I mean, Iceland didn't get to negotiate fisheries and agriculture in 2009 either
00:56In its first negotiation, the EU and Iceland never actually got to those chapters
01:01Which is concerning because, I mean, those are the really big important chapters for Iceland
01:07So, you know, Iceland has about 4% of its total workforce works in fisheries
01:14It's responsible for about a bit more than 8% of Iceland's GDP
01:19So fisheries have a lot of economic and as well political weight
01:23And when it comes to the cost of accessing the EU
01:26Opposing camps cited drastically different numbers
01:30The No Front set the figure as high as 1 billion euros a year
01:34While prominent pro-EU figures said it would be just over 50 million euros
01:39The pro-EU Front seems much closer to the truth here
01:42According to a study by the independent think tank Evropus Traumar
01:47Which claimed Iceland's net EU membership cost would be around 60 million euros a year
