The former Prime Minister of Iceland, Geir H. Haarde, was on trial for numerous accounts, related to the banking collapse of 2008. The Parliament had indicted him on 6 counts.…
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Voting Patterns in UN General Assembly
The UN’s General Assembly is body where each UN nation gets one vote. Looking at these votes through the years 2000-2008, we check how often given to countries agree/disagree on…
Who votes like Iceland in the UN General Assembly?
It’s always fun to look the data from the votes of the UN General Assembly. Here we looked at the votes in the years 2000-2008 to see which countries agreed…
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…
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…
Voting Patterns in the Constitutional Council of Iceland 2011
The above pictures was made by combining the voting results within the Icelandic Constitutional Council in 2011. Those representatives who voted in similar ways are shown close to one another.…
The Constant Fall of the Icelandic Krona
There has been an interesting discussion in Iceland in the past days about our National Currency, the Icelandic Krona. This has to do with a recent claim, e.g. by the…