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Tag: Icesave

Iceland under pressure to stop EU accession bid - 18 April 2012 - News

Political pressure is growing on Iceland's Parliament to halt accession talks with the EU, or at least review the negotiation procedure, because of the European Commission's involvement in the legal dispute between Reykjavik and British and Dutch authorities over the Icesave case.

Britain, Netherlands to take Iceland to court - 11 April 2011 - News

Britain and the Netherlands plan to sue EU candidate Iceland in a potentially drawn-out legal battle to recover $5 billion (3.46 billion euro) lost in a bank crash after Icelandic voters rejected a plan to repay the money.

Iceland gatecrashes EU antechamber - 27 July 2010 - News

Just one year after crisis-hit Iceland submitted its application to join the European Union, the bloc's foreign ministers yesterday decided that the Nordic country should start accession talks today (27 July).

Iceland faces Icesave referendum after talks fail - 01 March 2010 - News

Iceland's cabinet met on Friday (26 February) to decide its next move in the 'Icesave' debt debacle after talks collapsed with Britain and the Netherlands, raising the prospect of an indefinite hold on financial aid.

Iceland EU accession inspires exotic ideas for debt - 25 February 2010 - News

As Iceland appears to on a fast track to join the European Union, analysts are coming up with exotic ways of overcoming the main obstacle to the island country's accession – a multi-billion euro compensation package for British and Dutch savers hit by the collapse of the Icesave bank.

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