Iceland 8.1% in 2010. Many political parties remain opposed to EU membership, primarily due to Icelanders' concern about losing control over their natural resources (particularly fisheries). The national currency of Iceland is the Icelandic króna (ISK). Iceland is the only country in the world to have a population under two million yet still have a floating exchange rate and an independent monetary policy. A poll released on 5 March 2010 by Capacent Gallup showed that 31% of respondents were in favour of adopting the euro and 69% opposed. Another Capacent Gallup poll conducted in February 2012 found that 67.4% of Icelanders
Geology of Iceland frames from around the world suggests that the Iceland hotspot's path differs from older investigations. Many older rocks (dated 75-70 mya) located throughout the area to the west are not only located near hypothesized Iceland hotspot paths, but also attributable to hotspot volcanism, which implies a plausible case for the Iceland hotspot being much older than the earliest rifting of what is now the northernmost Northeast Atlantic. If such a hypothesis is true, then much of the rifting in the North Atlantic was likely caused by thinning and bulging of the crust as opposed to more direct influence by the