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Articles in English

11.3.2010
SOLIDARITY OF SMALL NATIONS

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7.11.2009
ICELAND AND THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS. POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS AND THE WAY FORWARD

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14.8.2009
ICELAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

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8.8.2009
POLITICAL FIRST-AID? Iceland and EU

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20.7.2009
ICELAND: FROM CRISIS TO RECOVERY

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Greinar nóvember 2009

7.11.2009
ICELAND AND THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS. POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS AND THE WAY FORWARD
A speech made at the Kalevi Sorsa Institude in Helsinki on the 7th of November, 2009

1. CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES:


Since the fall, Icelanders are still debating whether they were the innocent victims of outside events or if they are themselves to blame for their misfortune. Although the international crisis (the fall of Lehman brothers) was the spark that ignited the fire, there is ample evidence to show that Iceland was headed for a fall. It was only a matter of time.

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