EU claims Brussels 'never intervenes in referendums' after being told to keep nose out of Iceland's 'Brexit-style' vote

The European Union has claimed Brussels "never intervenes in referendums" after being told to keep its nose out of Iceland's Brexit-style vote later this month.Iceland, which first expressed an interest in joining the EU in 2009, will vote on whether to restart stalled negotiations with the bloc on August 29.Polling suggests the vote remains on a knife-edge, with a recent Maskina survey suggesting 44 per cent would vote in favour of accession to the EU and 39 per cent would vote against. Despite Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir's Social Democratic Alliance backing EU membership, two officials in Brussels have told Euractiv that Reykjavík does not want the European Commission to intervene on the...

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