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2010 |
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11.3.2010 ICELAND AND THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS. POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS AND THE WAY FORWARD 14.8.2009 ICELAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION 8.8.2009 POLITICAL FIRST-AID? Iceland and EU 20.7.2009 ICELAND: FROM CRISIS TO RECOVERY |
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Greinar 2003
1.12.2003TWO SUCCESS STORIES
At the end of the First World War - the war to end all wars - several new states emerged on the European scene. Among them were Finland and Iceland and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Baltic shore. Their high hopes for their newly won independence were to be severely tested during the course of the 20ieth century - the most violent century in the history of mankind, so far.
Iceland achieved its independence from Denmark by a treaty that entered into force December 1st, 1918. That day has since been celebrated in Iceland as the “Day of Sovereignty”, although the remaining ties to the Danish king were not severed until 1944, when Iceland was finally declared a republic. That was done at Thingvellir - where the oldest Parliament in the world was founded - in the year 930. Today Icelanders therefore celebrate the 85th anniversary of their national sovereignty in the modern world.
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