Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland told CNN he chose democracy over the financial markets when deciding to send the Icesave bill to a public vote.
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Iceland president calls Britain a bully
Posted on 01 February 2010.
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Newspaper interview with Icelandic political leader never shown
Posted on 15 December 2009.
An interview conducted with Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson for Iceland’s Morgunbladid newspaper this autumn remains unpublished because Benediktsson was unhappy with the journalist’s treatment of him.
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Former Icelandic PM Haarde on HARDtalk
Posted on 13 February 2009.
Geir H. Haarde, the former Icelandic Prime Minister, was in a BBC HARDtalk interview last night. He was questioned especially about the blame of the financial collapse last October, communication between him and the British PM Gordon Brown and private talks with the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, David Oddsson.
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