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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 Gunnar Wetterberg submitted to the Nordic Council in Reykjavik today.

Wetterberg argues that together the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the three micro territories the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Aland), will be stronger and more stable and prosperous than they are on their own.…  Seguir leyendo »

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When the University of Chicago professor, Robert Z Aliber, came to Reykjavik in 2007 and saw the many building cranes rising from the tiny and northernmost capital in the world, he immediately saw that the bubble was going to burst. Like most critics of Iceland's economic boom at the time, his prediction was dismissed by the whole Icelandic establishment. They claimed that Aliber, as a foreigner, didn't have a profound enough understanding of the uniqueness of the Icelandic society.

When the Icelandic Viking economy came crumbling down in the second week of October 2008, many economists started to take another look at Aliber's theory.…  Seguir leyendo »

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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 application proposal which will in all likelihood be submitted to the Swedish presidency when the council meets in Stockholm this month.

Until the collapse of the whole banking system last autumn Iceland was in no hurry to join the EU and seemed quite happy with its de-facto membership through the EEA agreement, which brings Iceland into the European single market but without representation in EU institutions.…  Seguir leyendo »