For years, the European Union seemed to be losing its hold on the European imagination — battered by Brexit, euroskepticism, and questions about whether membership was worth its constraints. Now Iceland, a small Nordic nation that long preferred the looser arrangement of the European Economic Area, is seriously reconsidering full membership, joining a growing queue of nations drawn back toward the bloc. This quiet reversal on the North Atlantic rim speaks to something larger: a rekindling of faith in the European project, and a sense that the union, after a prolonged season of doubt, is once a