The Spanish military has announced that it will not be patrolling Icelandic airspace this summer as had been previously agreed.
According to information from the Icelandic Foreign Ministry, the reason for the change of plan is that the Spanish government does not want to shoulder the costs involved in the operation during a time of financial crisis.
Ministry spokesman Urdur Gunnarsdottir said the issue is not in the hands of NATO, which is working to find another member state to patrol Icelandic airspace over the summer. An announcement on which nation that will be is expected around the middle of the month, according to mbl.is.
Sir Euro presents an inaccurate picture of the situation in Spain.
Both in terms of the education and skill level of its workforce as well as its credit rating.
Which isn’t great and is getting worse:
http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/standard-poors-puts-spanish-sovereign-debt-on-ratings-watch-negative/
If I were Iceland I would not be so quick to trade places with Spain.
Hey, CP, turn off the CAPS LOCK. Pretty please.
YOU HAS TO UNDERSTAND THAT EVEN THE UNITED STATES HAS TO BORROW MONEY FROM CHINA JAPAN KOREA WHY NOT LET ICELAND BECOME A CHINESE COLONY JUST LIKE GREENLAND THE WORLD SITUATION IS CHANGING I HAVE LIVE IN ICELAND FOR TEN YEARS AND ALSO A EX CITIZEN.ICELANDIC POLITICIANS IS TOO CORRUPT HAS TO CHANGE AND INFUSE SOME ASIAN VITALITY I DONT HAVE TO HIDE MYSELF NOT LIKE YOU ALL TALK AND NO WORK ETHNIC YOU ARE GOING DOWN THE DRAIN IN A SMALL ISOLATED ISLAND PLEASE WKE UP TIME HAS CHANGE NOT 30 YEARS AGO WE LEARN FROM MISTAKE JUST AS CAPITALIST MAKE THIS ROTTEN SYSTEM WE HAVE TO NATIONALISE THE POPULATION THROUGH HARD WORK DO NOT DREAM IF YOU WAKE UP YOU WOULD BE YEARS BEHIND THE VIKING AGE.I GUESS YOU TO MUCH ISOLATED AND DID NOT KNOW THAT THE WORLD HAS CHANGE LOOK AT G.M ITS BANKRUPT LIKE ICELAND WITHOUT ANY CLEAR WAY FORWARD YOU THINK THE WORLD CARE MUCH ABOUT ICELAND I DOUB’T WAKE UP ANY PUT THE HARD WORK ETHNIC TO LEARN THE CHINESE WAY FORWARD.
Gus Its obvious that CHINE SE POWER is SIR EURO, AKA NEXT PRESIDENT, AKA GUS, i can tell from the writing style among other things,
When Everhard Vissers wrote a post here using a Swiss email address, was that one of your characters ?, he was ansvering your post :)
your from Switzerland arent you,
your a posts are a weird mix of common sense an madness, sometimes fun to read though,
try beeing yourself, stop this character games
they are both silly and transparent.
>SO I WANT YOU TO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT WHAT YOU SAY.
Well, whether you are CHINESE POWER or not, the crack advice is still good :) .
Oh, and you forgot THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
“As to Spanish planes – I understand them. I know that pilots like to fly – no matter what you call it. But Spain can’t afford these big boys expensive games anymore”
SPAIN CAN AFFORD THAT AND EVEN MORE. I AM NOT PROUD TO SAY THAT SPAIN IS/ HAS BEEN PRESENT IN THE MAIN CONFLICTS, MOST OF THE TIMES COLLABORATING AS UNO PACIFICATION FORCES (YUGOSLAVIA, AFGHANISTAN, ETC…)
YOU DON´T HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT THE SPANISH ARMED FORCES IS AND THE MILITARY TRADITION OF THAT COUNTRY. JUST REMEMBER THAT ONLY SPAIN HAD THE BIGGEST EMPIRE OF ALL THE HUMAN HISTORY. AN EMPIRE THAT HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE AFTER THAT. SPAIN PRACTICALLY OWNED AND RULED OVER MORE THAN HALF OF THIS WORLD DURING CENTURIES. THAT IS WHY MORE THAN 30 COUNTRIES HAVE SPANISH AS ITS MOTHER TONGUE.
LOOK THE UNITED STATES, WITH ALL THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE HAD DURING THE LAST 80 YEARS, THEY DID NOT EVEN GET TO BE THE HALF AS BIG AS THE SPANISH EMPIRE. USA HAVE TRIED TO CONQUER THE WORLD ECONOMICALLY AND WHEN THEY HAVE SEEN THAT THEY WOULDN´T GET TO THAT THEY HAVE USED TERROR AND MILITARY FORCE, CREATING WARS EVERYWHERE. THAT IS ALL. AND YOU SEE NOW, THEY ARE FINALLY ADMITTING THAT THEY ARE NOT THAT GREAT AS THEY THOUGHT TO BE AND ARE RETIRING BACK…
INSTEAD, COUNTRIES LIKE SPAIN, WITH A VERY STRONG BANK SYSTEM, AND GROWING COMPANIES ARE TAKING ALL OVER SOUTH AMERICAN, AFRICAN AND ANY OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRY, AS WELL AS THE ASIAN MARKET USING LAST TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY.
JUST THINK THAT MOST OF THE PARTS, IF NOT ENTIRE SATELLITES, THAT THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY SENDS, ARE DESIGNED AND PRODUCED IN SPAIN.
JUST THINK THAT THE MOST ADVANCED EDUCATION IN AERO-SPATIAL TRANSPORTING AND TRANSPORT DESIGN IS AVAILABLE IN PLACES LIKE BARCELONA.
AS I ALWAYS DEFEND, YOU HAVE A WRONG AND OLD IMAGE OF COUNTRIES LIKE SPAIN. SPAIN IS NOT WHAT IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO.
THERE IS UNEMPLOYMENT IN SPAIN, LIKE ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY. BUT STILL IS FAR AWAY FROM THE UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS YOU CAN SEE IN COUNTRIES LIKE USA.
OTHER THING IS THAT SPANISH WELFARE SYSTEM OFFER SUCH QUANTITY OF HELP THAT YOU CAN SAY THAT NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN SPAIN IS IN THE SAME SITUATION OF EMERGENCY LIKE YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE IN USA OR ICELAND. THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN SPAIN IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE WORLD. HEALTH IS 100% FOR FREE!!! WHEN ARE US CITIZENS GOING TO GET FREE HEALTH SYSTEM?? KEEP DREAMING…
EDUCATION IS FOR FREE!! AND NOT ONLY THAT, IF YOU ARE A STUDENT YOU GET A YEAR ALLOWANCE TO PAY BOOKS, TRANSPORT, RENT, AND YOU EVEN HAVE SOMETHING LEFT TO PARTY… YOU DON´T HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING BACK WHEN YOU FINNISH YOUR STUDIES…
I SPAIN THE GOVERN BUILDS MORE THAN 10.000 HOUSES A YEAR, THAT ARE HOUSES GIVEN TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO RESOURCES TO GET TO HOUSING.
AND YOU HAVE TO SEE THOSE FLATS… THEY ARE VERY NICE AND OF HIGH QUALITY.
SPANISH BANKS ARE VERY STRONG, AND SPAIN AS A COUNTRY IS NOT IN DEBT. WE DON´T NEED IFM MONEY TO GET ALONG, BY THE CONTRARY, WE BORROW MONEY AND HAVE SEND HELP WITH OTHER EU COUNTRIES TO POOR COUNTRIES LIKE ICELAND.
YOU ALSO DID NOT KNOW THAT ONE OF THE 3 MOST ADVANCED SPACE OBSERVATORIES IS SPANISH AND IS IN THE CANARY ISLANDS.
SPAIN DESIGN AND PRODUCES ALL THE MILITARY VEHICLES AND PLANES FOR THE COUNTRY, AND NOT ONLY THAT, SELLS ARMAMENT FOR MORE THAN 100 BILLION USA$ A YEAR.
ONLY VENEZUELA HAVE BOUGHT MORE THAN 6BILLION USA DOLLARS DURING THE LAST 3 YEARS.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT A POWERFUL AND STRONG COUNTRY SPAIN IS GETTING, SLOWLY BUT SURELY.
THE BUILDING SECTOR IN SPAIN NOW IS NOT AT ITS BEST, BUT THAT MEANS THAT THE TOURISTIC AREAS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CREATED, NOW MOST OF THOSE WORKERS ARE BEING INTEGRATED IN NEW TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY, IT WILL TAKE A FEW YEARS TO COMPLETE THE PROCESS, BUT AFTER THAT SPAIN WILL CONSOLIDATE AT A VERY COMPETITIVE POSITION INTERNATIONALLY.
YOU ONLY NEED TO SEE THE LIST OF OFFICIAL MASTERS DEGREES IN ALL AREAS OF TECHNOLOGY OFFERED AT SPANISH UNIVERSITIES AND EMPOWERED BY THE GOV. MOST OF THE STUDENTS WILL NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR STUDYING THEM AND THEY WILL GET SCHOLARSHIPS.
AGAIN, THE SAME MONKEY THING, INSTEAD OF RECOGNIZING THAT YOU ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND IN TECHNOLOGY THE ONLY THING THAT UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES LIKE ICELAND CAN DO IS TO CRITICIZE NEGATIVELY OTHER COUNTRIES AND DO NOTHING FOR ITS OWN ECONOMY.
LETS SEE IF OBAMA CAN PUT THE US TO WORK TO NOT TO BE LET BEHIND IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS. SPAIN AND OTHER EU COUNTRIES HAS STARTED LONG A GO A CAREER OF TECHNOLOGY.
MAYBE CHINA POWER CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS HAPPENING IN INDIA AND CHINA, THE GIANTS ARE COMING…
Bromley86 said:
“All crack and no play makes Gus a schizophrenic.”
DO YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE OF CHINESE POWER WRITING IN CAPITALS?? BE CAREFUL, BECAUSE I DON´T KNOW WHO THAT PERSON IS. I AM A PERSON OF INTEGRITY AND I WRITE HERE ANYTHING I WANT AND I HAVE NEVER EVER HAD TO HIDE MY IDENTITY OR USE DIFFERENT ONES, TIL THE TIME I DECIDED TO CALL MYSELF SIR EURO ( FORMER GUS).
SO I WANT YOU TO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT WHAT YOU SAY.
AND I WOULD LIKE CHINESE POWER TO STAT THIS, HE HAS BEEN POSTING OTHER COMMENTS HERE AROUND…
Bromlye86.
Iceland is doing very good job as NATO member. You don’t see it only because of the size – just 300,000 people. Of course Icelandic submarines or tanks divisions are not that impressive as of other members ;-) But air traffic control, technical and police assistance are very much appreciated. Iceland even had one injured soldier in Afganistan!
And NATO ships are using Reykjavik harbor as the base for Arctic patrols (I can see one Danish right now). And Keflavik airstrips are as important and convenient as before.
As to Spanish planes – I understand them. I know that pilots like to fly – no matter what you call it. But Spain can’t afford these big boys expensive games anymore.
Then don’t kick it off ;-)
Alexander. A whole raft of reasons, all of them Russian-related. Iceland’s pride and even security if a new Cold War kicked off, but mainly (reading between the lines) to support northern NATO countries with arctic claims.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1461960020080314
Cheap at the price (i.e. free), if you can get someone to do it. Thinking about it, aside from its location as a base, has Iceland done anything for NATO? Everything I’ve read on the subject, which isn’t much, has said that they’ve done nothing whilst at the same time being very quick to threaten to leave when they want something.
> Alexander E: Perhaps they whant to check others patrols? I think you know the answer.
2Axel.
As far as I know rescue missions are done by Iceland now.
Russia is out of question not because NATO but by simple fact – Russia doesn’t need the base (as it can’t afford one).
But the question remains – what are this patrols for?
The Icelandic president has no real power, he can not offer anything to anyone, as long as we are a member of Nato Russia is out of the question,
to bad we lost the US navy base, they handled this very well, also miss the search and rescue helicopter squad, they saved hundreds of lives here in Iceland, they risked their lives many times doing that, some of the rescues where extreamly dangerous and hard to do.
All crack and no play makes Gus a schizophrenic.
ICELAND NEED THE CHINESE MILITARY AND IMMIGRATION TO KEEP UP WITH THE ECONOMIC SITUATION. LOOK AT HOW CHINESE IMMIGRATION CAN HELP THE COUNTRY LIVE SIMPLE AND WORK HARD NO MORE ALL PLAY AND NO WORK. LOOK AT CHINA TAIWAN SINGAPORE HONG KONG ALL WITH RESOURCES BUT WELL DEVELPO ECONOMY.
USicelandic
Thats a picture of a Spainish Airforce F-18, from Wikipedia, where you will read that they fly about 90 F-18′s.
The UK was going to fly these patrols (which are for training to defend NATO). Seems its not such a snub that Iceland rejected the UK’s services.
Nice picture of an FA-18, what plane would the Spanish be flying because it sure as heck wouldn’t be as good of a plane as that one.
Thanks we don´t need to spend money to them. They don´t need us to do anything for them.
Bear in mind that, 3 months ago, Iceland’s president offered Russia the use of an abandoned NATO airbase in Iceland…
I’m sorry but what is the aim of “patrolling”?