Or, in other words, Iceland is to join the EU, it’s membership is to be fast tracked in record time, the Guardian had an exclusive* on the story this morning…

Iceland will be put on a fast track to joining the European Union to rescue the small Arctic state from financial collapse amid rising expectations that it will apply for membership within months, senior policy-makers in Brussels and Reykjavik have told the Guardian.

I wonder how other countries who are looking to join will view this fast tracking?

* = The Guardian Style Guide says an exclusive is “term used by tabloid newspapers to denote a story that is in all of them.”