Archivo etiqueta «Islandia»
Por Manuel Castells (LA VANGUARDIA, 08/10/11):
En los albores del movimiento de indignados, se clamaba: “Islandia es la solución!”. Ahora, cuando se agrava la crisis financiera y se extreman los recortes sociales en Europa, Islandia crece al 2,3%, ha estabilizado su sistema financiero tras su colapso total en 2008, reducido el paro y relegitimado su sistema político mediante la preparación de una nueva Constitución con amplia participación ciudadana. Todo ello a partir de un movimiento de indignación popular que inició el 11 de octubre de 2008 el cantante Hordur Torfason y fue luego amplificado mediante internet.
Y es que Islandia … Seguir leyendo
Par Corinne Deloy, Fondation Robert-Schuman (LE MONDE, 12/04/11):
“La pire option a été choisie. Le vote a coupé le pays en deux” a déclaré la premier ministre, Johanna Sigurdardottir (Parti de l’alliance social-démocrate) sur la chaîne de télévision publique à l’annonce des résultats du référendum le 9 avril. Les Islandais ont en effet rejeté la nouvelle loi sur l’accord Icesave par 58,9 % de “non” et 39,7 % de “oui”. Le Sud a été, parmi les six circonscriptions du pays, la plus mobilisée contre le texte (72,9 % de “non”). La participation a été importante, s’élevant à 70 %, … Seguir leyendo
By Eva Joly, a French MEP and was an adviser into the criminal investigation into the failed Icelandic banks (THE GUARDIAN, 08/04/11):
On Saturday the Icelandic people vote in a referendum on whether the Icelandic state and thus the citizens should guarantee the so-called Icesave claim. Icesave was a bank deposit account that promised market-leading interest rates. When the bank failed, the question arose if the Icelandic depositors’ guarantee fund – a private institution financed by the banks – should have taxpayer backing. Instead of letting depositors lose their money or even wait for compensation from the bankruptcy … Seguir leyendo
By Joel R. Reynolds, senior attorney and director of marine mammal protection for the Natural Resources Defense Council, based in Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 05/01/11):
Weighing up to 80 tons and almost twice the length of a school bus, the massive fin whale — known as the greyhound of the sea for its swimming speed — was the victim of decades of commercial slaughter that killed the whales by the tens of thousands each year. Then, in 1986, with the species on the brink of extinction, the nations of the world agreed to a moratorium on commercial whaling, … Seguir leyendo
By Eirikur Bergmann, a professor in political science and director of Centre for European Studies at the Bifrost University in Iceland (THE GUARDIAN, 02/11/10):
Today the leaders of the five Nordic states are meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a Nordic federal state. Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some sort of a supra-national Nordic state regularly crops up. Now this old idea has resurfaced in a book the Swedish history professor … Seguir leyendo
Por Francesc Granell Trías, catedrático de Organización Económica Internacional de la Universidad de Barcelona, académico de la Real de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras y director general honorario de la Comisión Europea; en 1993-1994 fue jefe negociador en la Comisión Europea para el ingreso de Finlandia en la UE (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 18/11/09):
Tema: Se repasa el contexto en el que se presenta la candidatura islandesa a la adhesión y se formulan propósitos respecto a cómo la Presidencia española debe gestionar eficazmente el proceso teniendo en cuenta la muy similar experiencia ampliatoria de 1995 y tratando de no romper los … Seguir leyendo
Por Eva Joly, députée européenne Verts et conseillère pour le gouvernement islandais dans l’enquête pénale sur les causes de la défaillance des banques (LE MONDE, 01/08/09):
De G8 en G20, beaucoup de chefs d’Etats et de gouvernements aiment à répéter que rien ne sera plus comme avant. Le monde change, la crise l’a même bouleversé ; nos façons de penser et d’agir en termes de régulation financière, de relations internationales ou d’aide au développement doivent donc, nous disent-ils, évoluer de même. Mais de nombreux exemples contredisent hélas toutes ces belles paroles. La situation dans laquelle se trouve l’Islande à … Seguir leyendo
Por Francesc Granell, catedrático de la Universidad de Barcelona. Fue jefe negociador de la Comisión Europea para el ingreso de Finlandia en la UE (EL PAÍS, 30/07/09):
Con el débil respaldo parlamentario de 33 votos a favor, 28 en contra y 2 abstenciones en su Parlamento, el Gobierno de Islandia presentó solicitud de adhesión a la Unión Europea el pasado 23 de julio, aprovechando que su valedor, Suecia, ostenta la presidencia del Consejo de la UE. La solicitud ha caído bien. El Consejo de Ministros del 27 de julio aceptó la demanda encargando a la Comisión Europea que elabore el … Seguir leyendo
By Eirikur Bergmann, a professor in political science and director of Centre for European Studies at the Bifrost University in Iceland (THE GUARDIAN, 17/07/09):
Two issues have dominated the agenda in the Icelandic parliament during this extraordinarily political summer: a government proposal to apply for EU membership and the agreement over the Icesave accounts. Both issues need the parliament’s blessing and both have put great strain on the new leftwing coalition government which came into power after the saucepan revolution earlier this year – when the former right-of-centre coalition government collapsed.
Today the parliament passed the EU … Seguir leyendo
Por Gregorio Morán (LA VANGUARDIA, 31/01/09):
Estamos asistiendo a la caída de un mundo y resulta que el único país donde la gente ha sido capaz de echar a su gobierno por golfo y por incompetente es Islandia. Trescientos y pico mil habitantes en un territorio tres veces mayor que Catalunya. Llevaban años exhibiendo musculatura y resultó que todo era una gran estafa; me refiero al nervio ciego de la economía, aquel de las finanzas, donde se manifestaba la efervescencia de una nación. Puta mentira; los banqueros eran unos trileros de fortuna, que habían puesto toda la riqueza del país … Seguir leyendo
By Björk. Björk’s new single is called Náttúra (THE TIMES, 28/10/08):
After touring for 18 months I was excited to return home a few weeks ago to good, solid Iceland and enjoy a little bit of stability. I had done a concert there earlier this year to raise awareness about local environmental issues and 10 per cent of the nation came to it; but I still felt it wasn’t enough.
So when I returned I decided to contact people all over the island who had attempted to start new companies and bring in new greener ways of working but … Seguir leyendo
By Gauti Kristmannsson, an associate professor of translation studies at the University of Iceland (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/10/08):
Icelanders have woken up in a new novel by Franz Kafka, where everybody is guilty by default. One by one, the mighty banks have been seized by the government, and Icelanders, aghast, have been told that each and every one of us owes millions of dollars — to whom, we don’t know. The earnest faces of the politicians, of bankers and tycoons almost crying, give us the final touch of the surreal. The situation is comparable only with the fall … Seguir leyendo
By Roy Hattersley (THE GUARDIAN, 11/10/08):
Our cause is just. But so it was in 1975, when Iceland decided – unilaterally and illegally – to create an “exclusion zone” around its coast. Foreign trawlers were forbidden to fish within its boundaries.
When Grimsby skippers ignored the edict, Icelandic gunboats severed the cables which connected boats to nets – risking fishermen being cut in half by steel hawsers ripping across the deck. All Whitehall agreed that the Icelanders – the most highly educated people in the world – would respond to an offer of compromise. I was chosen to carry it … Seguir leyendo
By Scott Borgerson, who teaches maritime studies at the Coast Guard Academy, is an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/08/07):
Aboard Training Vessel Arctic Tern, off Newport, R.I.
Russia’s flag-planting caper at the North Pole last week captured the world’s attention. Harking back to the heady days of colonial imperialism and perhaps the success of Sputnik, a resurgent Russia dispatched from Murmansk a nuclear-powered icebreaker and a research vessel armed with two mini-submarines to stake a symbolic claim to the Arctic Ocean’s riches. Russia hopes that leaving its flag encased in … Seguir leyendo