The is a cashier Bonus in Kringlan who always bags things up for me. Like they do it in America. Also, she goes the extra mile to talk English to…
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ACE report on the electoral Proposals of the Icelandic Constitutional Council.
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An Open Letter to Gouda Cheese
Note to international users: I wrote this piece when the main Icelandic cheese maker decided to change the name of their Gouda cheese to Góðostur (Goodcheese). Dear Gouda cheese. I…
“Still whining about the Holocaust”
Professor Stefán Ólafsson professor writes strange article on his website, where he wonders why some people still want to speak communism being bad policy . I mean what is it…
A Monument of Civil Violence
Some people find it appropriate to construct a sculpture near the parliament where MPs are told that they will be beaten up if they do not perform. I don’t. Now…
Track Record of ESA in the EFTA Court
In yesterday‘s post we talked about the track record of the Efta Surveillance Authority against the Republic of Iceland in the EFTA Court. Here‘s a short comparison of how the other…
In the News
The Icelandic TV station “Stöð 2” quotes PaBaMapa’s post on the Iceland v. ESA track record in the EFTA Court. You can find it here: (in Icelandic): http://visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=VTV28956165-0DC8-445B-B564-77B632FA96D0
EFTA Surveillance Authority v. Republic of Iceland
Iceland has been taken to court by the EFTA Surveillance Authority in connection with the long-running IceSave dispute. This is not the first time. In the years since the establishing…
What Politics Does to You
This one is a bit personal. The author of this humble blog recently participated, along with 24 people, in the Constitutional Council of Iceland. Here’s one photo from the first…
EU – Fiscal Union – Who’s In and Who’s Out?
The recent EU-summit produced some news, whether it produced results is not yet clear. The leading pair France and Germany were pushing for a fiscal Union of the EU. In…