The financial campaigning group InDefence is unhappy that only Icelandic politicians, civil servants and bankers are being called as witnesses to the trial of former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde. They want to see Alistair Darling called to testify.
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InDefence wants to call Darling to testify at Haarde trial
Posted on 09 March 2012.
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Darling afraid to fly over Iceland
Posted on 07 September 2011.
Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has revealed in his new book that he was unnerved by the Icelanders during the banking crash and did not trust them…even when it came to his own life.
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Darling: pointless to push Iceland too hard
Posted on 08 March 2010.
Alistair Darling, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, says he is absolutely certain Iceland will pay Britain back for its reimbursement of lost savings in Icesave; the question is just what the conditions will be.
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UK moves to soften Icesave deal
Posted on 18 February 2010.
Britain may be ready to compromise with Iceland to find a suitable Icesave deal, the Financial Times reports.
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Iceland and Darling: post-match analysis
Posted on 06 April 2009.
The Icelandic media have naturally been paying a lot of attention to the British parliamentary committee’s conclusions on the Icelandic banking collapse. The fact that Chancellor Alistair Darling comes in for criticism from a committee of British MPs is being seen as something of a vindication: the British made Iceland’s crisis worse than it needed [...]
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Alistair Darling “interpreted the words of the Icelandic Finance Minister in the wrong way”
Posted on 04 April 2009.
The use of terrorist laws against Iceland has been criticised by a UK Parliament committee that is looking into how the British government reacted, using controversial terrorist laws against Iceland. “If this is as is being reported, then it’s the one positive aspect of the whole affair,” Says Arni Mathiesen former Icelandic Finance Minister. “This [...]
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Darling “overreacted towards Iceland”
Posted on 04 April 2009.
The application of anti-terrorist laws against Iceland at the beginning of the banking crisis last October was unnecessarily harsh; this is the finding of a British parliament committee set up specifically to investigate events in the Icelandic economy and their effect on the United Kingdom. The committee also found that the laws need reviewing and [...]
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Iceland PM hits out at IMF rumours
Posted on 07 November 2008.
In a Interview to the online media MBL.is the Icelandic prime minster Geir H. Haarde said that unprocessed loans from other countries are stopping the IMF finalising its loan to Iceland, not political pressure from other EU countries. According to news there have been rumours that the IMF is being pressured by some EU nations [...]
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