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Alda Sigmundsdóttir
 

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Alda Sigmundsdóttir is a writer, translator and blogger based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She runs the popular website icelandweatherreport.com.
 

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Europe 93% say no : What's next for the Icelandic government?

93% say no : What’s next for the Icelandic government?

93% was the percentage of the Icelandic electorate that said NO to the Icesave bill. So the big question around here now is: What will happen to the government now that the Icesave referendum is over. The opposition of course keeps banging about how (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

International Icesave: the hour is nigh

Icesave: the hour is nigh

Tomorrow at 10 am, Iceland’s parliament will vote on whether to accept a sovereign guarantee for the Icesave debt. For anyone who does not know, Icesave were online savings accounts opened in the UK and Holland, that collected colossal sums in (...)

30 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Business The IMF speaks out on *cough* Icesave. And a few other things

The IMF speaks out on *cough* Icesave. And a few other things

So the International Monetary Fund has started sending me mail. Press releases, that sort of thing. Entirely unsolicited. In fact, the first time they did, the email landed in my spam folder with the warning : THIS PERSON MAY NOT BE WHO THEY CLAIM TO BE - (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Business Iceland : Wave bye-bye to McDonald's

Iceland : Wave bye-bye to McDonald’s

Excellent news : The McDonald’s hamburger chain has decided to pack up its frozen burger patties and over-processed fish sticks and say goodbye to Iceland. Back in my North American incarnation, I used to be able to brag about the fact that in my (...)

28 oct. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

International

Are the UK and Holland standing in the way of Iceland seeking its legal rights ?

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in a blog post that our [then-] minister for health Ögmundur Jónasson had resigned over the Icesave issue. Yesterday we finally got the full details of why exactly he resigned. Those of you who have been following us for (...)

12 oct. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

International Iceland : Will the government collapse over the Icesave agreement ?

Iceland : Will the government collapse over the Icesave agreement (...)

Big news today : our Minister of Health Ögmundur Jónasson has resigned over the Icesave issue. Apparently the pressure is on to make everyone in government walk in step concerning Icesave - and he’s just not behaving. So instead of being pressured (...)

1er oct. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Comment Warming up for climate change reporting

Warming up for climate change reporting

So after two days of intense frustration, having schlepped my laptop all the way to the WakeUp Copenhagen Hotel and finding that the Wi-Fi was f*cked, this evening (by some miraculously inspired configuration) I managed to get online.* I have no idea what (...)

23 sep. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

International

Eva Joly : Iceland is being blackmailed

In all the furor surrounding the Kaupthing loan book this past week, the following article by Eva Joly (published in several newspapers across Europe) went virtually unnoticed. The only English-language version I know to have been published was in The (...)

7 aoû. 2009 | 1 comment | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

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