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Lára Hanna

Eva Joly in a farewell interview

October 18, 2010

So, Eva Joly gave a final interview on Silfur Egils this afternoon, recorded just after she stepped down as advisor to the Special Prosecutor into the bank collapse. As always, her lucid comments and composed, assured demeanor inspired confidence — to me, at least. I know there are a handful of people out there who [...]

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Major fury over new allegations regarding Magma Energy and HS Orka

July 12, 2010

Last Friday, a parliamentary committee that was appointed to rule on the legitimacy of foreign investment in Iceland, announced that it was perfectly legal for Magma Energy of Canada to own Icelandic utilities company HS Orka. Brief recap for anyone who doesn’t know about this case. Last year, a decision was made to sell [privatize] [...]

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On being bought and paid for by the EU

June 25, 2010

Here in Iceland there exists a narrow group of right-wing extremists who go to all sorts of lengths to propagate scaremongering and misinformation about various issues, including Iceland’s proposed membership to the European Union. These people are primarily the so-called quota kings and people close to the Independence Party who have held power in Iceland [...]

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On loan takers being held responsible

June 22, 2010

In the comments to the last post, a few readers expressed their views — which note bene we have heard before — that the people who took the foreign currency loans were really the ones to blame and should be held accountable for their actions. It was they who failed, not the system. Others, more [...]

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Raise the alarm: Iceland’s dreaded Water Act

June 13, 2010

For those of us who care about our country and its future, by far the most pressing current issue is the implementation of the Water Act from 2006, due to take effect on 1 July — in just over two weeks. The Act, the implementation of which has been postponed twice, would allow the owners [...]

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Eva Joly on the oligarchs’ arrests

May 31, 2010

This is slightly belated, but still fascinating: an interview with Eva Joly on Silfur Egils from May 16, in which she speaks about the arrests of the Kaupthing bankers earlier this month. I didn’t post it earlier because I was counting on Lára Hanna to post it on her blog. The RÚV website, where the [...]

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Two excellent interviews on Silfur Egils

May 3, 2010

Yesterday’s Silfur Egils* was excellent. The two most notable interviews in my opinion were those with Þorvaldur Gylfason, a professor of economics at the University of Iceland, and with William K. Black, an American lawyer and former bank regulator who is an expert in white-collar crime. Þorvaldur Gylfason is a man of strong opinions with [...]

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Jóhanna sends a clear message

March 5, 2010

As if the government wasn’t in enough trouble with public opinion here at home, Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir has publicly announced that she plans to shun the referendum tomorrow. “To me it is pointless and I find it is very sad that the first referendum since the founding of the republic revolves around legislation that [...]

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Iceland as microcosm

January 11, 2010

I’ve just watched Silfur Egils again with EPI and was struck by what impressed me so much about the programme earlier today. It is how many of the interviewees view the Icelandic situation not only as an isolated problem here in Iceland, but rather as part of the larger picture – the quivering and shaking [...]

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