Iceland: Not an EU member? Could have fooled me.
Reporters on the Job: Returning to Iceland after an eight-year absence, I noticed some big changes before I was even allowed into the country. Arriving from North America, my hand luggage was screened through X-ray machines before going through passport control, where I received a European Union entry stamp.
Icelanders aren鈥檛 in the European Union (read my story about that here) but as a visitor you鈥檇 hardly know it. EU citizens can travel and work here freely, and most of Reykjavik鈥檚 waiters and bus drivers seem to hail from my old stomping grounds: Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, or Bulgaria. It鈥檚 even part of Europe鈥檚 unified customs regime, something actual EU members like Romania and Bulgaria have yet to achieve.
