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By: Pieter van Pelt

Pieter van Pelt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:17:44 +0000

In the mean time, how is Eva Joly doing? Has she (or her committee) already recovered some money of the 1000 billion ISCrones that was ‘loaned’ to individuals / families /businesses surrounding the Kaupthing and Landsbanki bosses (I refer to the Kaupthing’s loan book exposed blog)?

Obviously, as long as these people are not yet completely skinned from their illegally obtained profits and all their properties -down to their clothes on their backs – it is not up to the Icelandic peope (or, for hat matter, the Dutch and UK taxpayers) o foot the bill.

So, how is Eva progressing?

Pieter

By: idunn

idunn — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:30:10 +0000

It seems that President Grímsson elected to defer this decision to the Icelandic people in a referendum because so many had expressed a strong opinion. Why not? Perhaps what must be a bitter pill in any event will go down more smoothly if citizens know at least a majority of them decided on the strategy.

Perhaps you could explain why the President and ‘the government’ seem to at cross purposes? Who then exactly is the ‘government,’ and can their expressed views on this matter prevent a referendum?

By: Gloria

Gloria — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:07:49 +0000

“And a day off work for everybody, of course!”

Sadly, more people will have days off work than you can imagine if Iceland loses its international credibility and thus its ability to borrow and trade with favorable terms. This is all very short-sighted. Too bad, and after so much hard work on the part of your PM and Finance Minister . . . .how awful.

By: Rik Hardy

Rik Hardy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:12:18 +0000

And a day off work for everybody, of course!

By: Rik Hardy

Rik Hardy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:10:06 +0000

Well if the Icelandic government is planning to ignore the wishes of its people, one can only say good luck with that…
I suggest we have the referendum next Monday.

By: Dave of Maryland

Dave of Maryland — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:02:15 +0000

I’m not a Nicelander, but it seems to me the president made the only choice open to him. If he signed it, it would used against him. Kick the can down the road & let the voters decide. I think it was a good choice.

And it might work. Nicelanders might approve the deal. In which case the pols are off the hook & Icelanders have only themselves to blame,

Unless the EU kicks up a stupid big stink about it & pisses the N off the front of Nice. The sour note from Ireland, how the Murdoch papers are playing it, is not helpful. On the other hand, if Ireland, or Greece, or the Baltic countries are next to appear in front of the firing squad, they may be hoping that Iceland stops being Nice & sets the precedent that gets all of them off the hook.

But I’m not a Nicelander. Great blog, by the way.