The Netherlands’ king-in-waiting has a Finnish ancestral background, the Helsinki-based YLE news agency reported. The link comes via Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange’s father, Claus Amsberg, whose ancestors from the Horn family resided near the village of Pori in Finland, which was under Swedish rule in the Middle Ages.
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Dutch heir has Finnish roots
Posted on 12 February 2013.
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Iceland has been sold
Posted on 12 March 2012.
The resolution committee of Old Landsbanki in Iceland has sold the bank’s entire stake in UK retail chain Iceland Foods.
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Iceland Foods bids in, US Republican candidate connected to one
Posted on 05 February 2012.
Offers on the British supermarket chain Iceland Foods are close to the value which the resolution committee of failed Icelandic bank Old Landsbanki had hoped for. The likely Republican presidential candidate in the USA is connected to one of the bidding investment funds.
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Police complete investigation into Iceland’s biggest drugs haul of the year
Posted on 07 January 2012.
Reykjavík police have completed their investigation into the biggest illegal drugs find of 2011 and the case has now been passed on to the state prosecutor. Two men, in their forties and fifties, remain in custody over the case.
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Össur handed Icesave in spite of opposition ire
Posted on 20 December 2011.
The Icelandic foreign minister will take control of the country’s Icesave defence preparations at the EFTA court; despite loud calls from the opposition to keep the case in the hands of the business and commerce minister.
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EFTA Iceland Icesave court decision: analysis and reactions
Posted on 15 December 2011.
The EFTA surveillance authority’s decision to take Iceland to court over its unwillingness to accept a state guarantee for Icesave customers in the UK and the Netherlands was greeted in Reykjavík with little surprise.
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EFTA to take Iceland to court over Icesave
Posted on 15 December 2011.
ESA, the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) surveillance authority, has decided to take the Icelandic state to the EFTA court over its handling of the Icesave case. By discriminating against foreign depositors and not reimbursing the British and Dutch governments within one year, it is claimed Iceland broke European law.
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UK and NL receive first Icesave refunds, ESA still not sure about legal action
Posted on 09 December 2011.
The estate of Iceland’s bankrupt Landsbanki bank this week paid the British and Dutch governments one third of the money they claim for having bailed out Landsbanki’s Icesave customers in the two countries. An ESA spokesman said that there still has not been any decision made as to whether or not the Icelandic state will [...]
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