icesave referendum

Temperature rising

March 4, 2010

What strange days we are experiencing up here in the Land of the Nice. Thursday evening, and the government is STILL saying that a new deal with UK/Holland by Saturday cannot be ruled out. Yet we’re set to vote in a referendum in two days’ time. The mind boggles. Make no mistake: there is a [...]

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Welcome to the theatre of the absurd

March 1, 2010

So, the foreign press is converging on Iceland these days, all in anticipation of this Saturday’s Referendum That May Not Be. And, you know, with all due respect and everything [because of course I have been in touch with a number of you - hi!] all this attention does seem a bit bizarre, considering that [...]

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Date set for Icesave referendum

January 19, 2010

So, the government has just announced that the referendum on Icesave will be held on 6 March this year. This will be the first-ever referendum in the history of the Republic of Iceland [despite the President's lofty declarations on the Beeb about referendums being a regular part of Iceland's democratic process]. Meanwhile, the Dutch Finance [...]

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