while was hour to send a warm message of welcome to icseland already by numerous agreements and partnerships with you we have made it clear through a number of amendments that
While it was our intention to send a warm message of welcome to Iceland, which is already bound by numerous agreements and partnerships with the EU, we have made it clear, through a number of amendments, that it will have to improve its system of appointing the country's judges and supreme judicial bodies in order to satisfy the criterion and fundamental principle of the separation of powers and, above all, that it will have to stop whale hunting prior to membership.
While was our to send a warm message of welcome to Iceland, already by numerous agreements and partnerships with EU, we have made it clear, through a number of amendments, that it will to its system of appointing country's judges and supreme judicial bodies in order to satisfy criterion and fundamental principle of the separation of powers and, that will have to stop whale hunting prior to membership.