On Saturday, Icelanders will vote on whether to reopen a path toward joining the bloc — and adopting its rules that ban the hunt.

By CARLO MARTUSCELLIin Reykjavík

Illustration by Arnau Busquets Guàrdia/POLITICO

Kristján Loftsson has spent decades finding ways to keep Iceland’s whaling industry alive. The 83-year-old Icelandic millionaire’s latest idea is to turn whale meat into iron supplements.

But he may soon face a problem no new product can solve.