Icelanders also does not want to pay for foreign bugs
Icelanders, as the Greeks do not want to pay for foreign errors indicate global agencies. By overwhelming majority, they rejected an agreement worth $ 5 billion to pay debts to Britain and the Netherlands. The results of about 18 000 votes 93% indicates disagreement with the transaction, but only 1.5 percent were in favor of respondents. In Iceland, held the first referendum since it received independence in 1944. Voters – about 230 thousands – were urged to act on unpopular agreement to compensate customers of bankrupt Icelandic bank “Aysseyv.” Option, subject to consultation, condemning every Finn to pay for nearly one hundred euros per month for eight years. From second payment to Iceland is the only chance to restore their economic standing before the world. Meanwhile, on the eve of the referendum, the Icelandic government began attempts to reach a new arrangement in lighter conditions and claimed that the consultation is outdated and irrelevant text. Reykjavik is hoping the result is not wrongly perceived as a sign that the country is unwilling to pay its obligations under the “Aysseyv.” According to analysts, the outcome of the referendum may delay the next tranche of financial assistance from the IMF.
Additional “pouring oil on fire” The Netherlands, which linked the case “Aysseyv” and the upcoming negotiations for entry into Iceland’s EU membership. In an official release even the Government of the Netherlands set the referendum as “an internal matter.” Icelanders, who in crisis 2007th since lost 30 percent of their income, were able to pour out their anger against politicians and bankers as they say there, the Anglo-Dutch dictate. With an expected negative referendum result has the following background.
The collapse of the three largest banks in Iceland in 2008 and shattered the country’s system of deposit insurance. About 340 thousands of British and Dutch investors in online bank “Aysseyv had to be offset by the guarantee schemes in their own countries. Now Britain and the Netherlands want Iceland to return their money back. In the proposed text of the referendum, it is a payment of three billion and 900 million euros by 2024.
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