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"en.20120314.22.3-386-250"2
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"Iceland, a founding member of NATO, is a country with a very important geostrategic position, due in large measure to its proximity to the Arctic, an area in which there is a dispute under way about sovereignty over the region’s unexploited natural resources, particularly oil and gas.
As normally happens in cases like this, the majority in this Parliament are seeking to push Iceland’s political parties and government to accept neoliberal policies and choices. It was this very package of neoliberal measures that led to the major crisis that Iceland is facing and, as in the EU, is having very serious social consequences. The report demands that the Icelandic authorities implement economic reforms, lift capital controls, and open up the energy, air transport and fishing industries, whilst rejecting any measures to protect its economy and workers.
Once again, the concerns guiding the majority in this Parliament and the ideological principles that they espouse are clear. It is illuminating that they have taken the side of the major banks of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, expressing satisfaction at payments to ‘creditors’, whilst ignoring that they are responsible for the crisis and passing responsibility for paying to the Icelandic workers and people."@en1
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