Iceland is weighing a vote on restarting EU membership talks as early as August, according to two people familiar with the country’s accession preparations, Politico reports.

Reykjavik’s governing coalition had promised to hold a referendum on restarting EU accession talks by 2027, after a previous government froze negotiations in 2013. But the timeline is being sped up at a time of geopolitical upheaval and following a decision by Washington to impose tariffs on Iceland and threats by US President Donald Trump to annex Greenland.

The Icelandic parliament is expected to announce the date of the ballot within the next few weeks, according to the two people who were granted anonymity to speak freely. The move comes after a flurry of visits by EU politicians to Iceland and by Icelandic politicians to Brussels. If Icelanders vote yes, they could join the EU before any other candidate country, one of the people said.

“The conversation on enlargement is shifting,” EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, who met with Iceland’s Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrin Gunnarsdottir last month in Brussels, told Politico. “It is increasingly about security, about belonging and about preserving our ability to act in a world of competing spheres of influence. This concerns all Europeans.”

And European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir in Brussels last month and said their partnership “offers stability and predictability in a volatile world.”

Iceland applied to join the EU in 2009 at the peak of a financial crisis in which all three of its major commercial banks collapsed. But the government froze the talks in December 2013, with Iceland’s economy rapidly recovering at the same time as economists warned of a potential eurozone collapse. In March 2015 Reykjavík asked that it no longer be considered an EU candidate country.

But the geopolitical situation has changed significantly over the past decade.

Iceland occupies a strategically important location in the North Atlantic just south of the Arctic Circle, does not have an army, and relies on its membership in NATO and a 1951 bilateral defense agreement with the US for its security.

That reality, along with the economic benefits of joining the EU, seems to be warming public attitudes about potentially joining the bloc, with polling showing support on the rise.

If Icelanders do decide they wish to resume talks with the EU, negotiations could move quickly. Iceland is a member of the European Economic Area and part of the Schengen free travel area, and as such already has many of the EU’s laws on its books.

Before the freezing of talks back in 2013, Iceland had closed 11 of its negotiating chapters out of 33.