Icelanders

Icelanders keep cool over EU membership (AFP)

August 2nd, 2010

A boat rests in a church yard on July 30, 2010 in Sandgerdi, Iceland. European Union foreign ministers gave the go-ahead on July 26, 2010 to open membership negotiations with Iceland, but amid growing doubts about public support on the island.(AFP/Halldor Kolbeins)AFP - Formal talks have started over Iceland’s entry into the European Union, but Icelanders remain cool at the prospect as differences over fishing and revived national pride trump EU…

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next (AP)

May 1st, 2010

People look at Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano April 22, 2010.br /<br /></a> Iceland's volcanic eruption was spewing far less ash on Thursday and the plume of smoke was low, but a change of wind direction meant the north Atlantic island's main airports were now set.br /<br /> REUTERS/Ingolfur Juliusson (ICELAND - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT TRAVEL)AP - It took Sigurdur Thorhallsson more than a decade to turn a patch of flat land wedged between glacier and ocean into a field fit to grow fodder grass.…

Icelanders reject deal to repay British and Dutch (Reuters)

March 6th, 2010

Iceland's president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson casts his vote at an Alftanes polling station. Icelanders have massively rejected a deal to pay Britain and the Netherlands billions for losses in the collapse of the Icesave bank, the government said Saturday after partial referendum results.(AFP/Halldor Kolbeins)Reuters - Icelandic voters vented their fury on Saturday at the bankers and politicians who ruined the economy, overwhelmingly rejecting a $5 billion deal to repay debts to Britain and…

Icelanders vote on deal to repay $5.3 billion (AP)

March 6th, 2010

An Icelander reads a referendum pamphlet in Reykjavik on Tuesday March 2, 2010. Iceland is scheduled to hold a referendum on 6 March on plans to repay Britain and the Netherlands debts owed from the collapse of Internet bank Icesave. Iceland is holding last-ditch talks with the two countries to try hammer out a new payment plan after criticisms of a previously agreed deal forced it to call a potentially damaging referendum on the issue. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti )AP - Icelanders are voting in a nationwide referendum on approving the use of taxpayers’ money to repay international debts.


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