For people from outside Iceland it is probably hard to understand the world Bjarni Benediktsson seems to live in. The chairman of the Independence Party who is normally afraid of speaking his mind under the watchful gaze of his predecessors says in an interview with Frettabladid today that he is pro-European. He claims that it [...]

Ms Sigurdardottir said that it was “unfair” that the IMF and Nordic donors had made access to additional aid conditional on Iceland’s resolving the Icesave issue. But the prime minister voiced hope that the IMF review would start “within the next few weeks”. In written answers to FT questions, she said that the UK and [...]

A spin on a popular ad campaign. Who’s supposed to pay IceSave? Is it you?

Ogmundur Jonasson has resigned as Minister of Health. He handed in his resignation as he could not support the government on the IceSave issue which is likely to be back on Althingi’s table. The government is meeting at 6pm. Are we in for yet another farce? Update: The government seems to be trying the only [...]

The IceSave bill is the one Landsbankinn’s majority owners, boardmembers and management left without paying. It was used by the government as an excuse not to anything else during the summer. It was used by the opposition to stir up things in a world where they did not hold the reins anymore. It was used [...]

Paul H. makes a good point in a comment here: Under the circumstances it would make most sense to re-structure loans to a form that can actually be paid back. For benefit of both lender and borrower. Weren’t the ‘amendments’ to the Icesave ‘deal’ meant to make it possible for Iceland as a whole to [...]

Ferguson, who requires round-the-clock care and needs a wheelchair and ventilator, would love to be with people more her own age – but that dream is clouded by the financial losses Naomi House suffered from the collapse of Iceland’s banking system. Naomi House is just one of scores of charities across Britain that lost a [...]

Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson says he is responsible for what happened in Iceland between 1991-2004. Not afterwards. He thinks that Steingrimur J. Sigfusson should be the one to apologize to the nation for the IceSave agreement. He says the whole nation, including himself is to blame for the economic crisis. With one exception, David Oddson. Pitiful? [...]

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