The Best Time to Negotiate: When You Don't Need To

The 29th of August is approaching and more and more blogs and opinion pieces I see are discussing the case for and against Iceland having accession talks with the EU. Reading some of the pieces written by friends and former colleagues stirred me up enough to want to discuss the issue myself. I am voting yes. This isn&rsquo;t a comprehensive case for yes - I would be speaking well outside of what…