Eva Joly helped Iceland investigate the economical disaster in Iceland with help from Sigurlaug Þ. Ragnarsdóttir
NÝIR TÍMAR – NEW TIMES
(New Times) founded in October 2008. The group marched every Wednesday and Saturdays from October 2008 to january 2009 demanding that the government step down and elections be held in the country immediately.
Sigurlaug says the new organization is independent of politics and money sources and that there is a huge interest in the protest. There are especially many young people who are tired of the situation.
We organized written protests, maintained the website www.nyirtimar.com and “Call to the people” on Facebook. We at “Nýjir Tímar” (New Times) invited all Icelanders to join us. Anyone who wanted to work towards these simple goals could find community with us. Let’s put down all empty disputes and stand up in the name of democracy and justice. At “New Era” we crossed all political party lines and refused to be the basis for political grandstanding.
“Now the young people are standing up and they will be noticeable in the march. The demand is clear, remove the government and elections immediately. We want everything new, new thinking and new values in this country,” says Sigurlaug, adding that it is now time for people to unite once and for all.
Sigurlaug says that the march on Saturday will be colorful as young people are busy preparing posters and demand cards and more. Various designers and other good people come to work.
“The young people who will inherit this country are rising up like that. These are the people who have been with the small businesses and know all the ways to get their message across. I encourage these people not to move out of the country, but to participate in the development,” says Sigurlaug.
“Now the young people are standing up and they will be noticeable in the march. The demand is clear, remove the government and elections immediately. We want everything new, new thinking and new values in this country,” says Sigurlaug, adding that it is now time for people to unite once and for all.
Sigurlaug says that the march on Saturday will be colorful as young people are busy preparing posters and demand cards and more. Various designers and other good people come to work.
“The young people who will inherit this country are rising up like that. These are the people who have been with the small businesses and know all the ways to get their message across. I encourage these people not to move out of the country, but to participate in the development,” says Sigurlaug.
THE ICESAVE DESPUTE
Iceland is going through a moment of truth for the future of its revolts. The citizen movements of the past few months today find themselves confronted by conservative forces that have regained their confidence. “We’re fighting monsters who have been prospering for over a hundred years. The Independence Party and some of the banks on the island have evolved together since the early years of the twentieth century, and it’s not easy to get rid of them.” said The Movement’s spokes person Sigurlaug Ragnarsdottir.
Patrice Trapier 10/17/2010
Eva Joly left excellent memories to the Icelanders. © Reuters
” I knew there was crime. It’s like when you see a man with a knife in his back, you know it’s murder, even if you don’t know the culprit yet. “
For the circle to be complete, Eva Joly returns to where it all began in 2009.
Icelanders now compare the Norwegian-French ex-investigating judge and politician Eva Joly (1943) with the mythological mountain woman Fjallkonan, symbol of the nation. In 2008, that nation wept, bankrupted by the greed of their bankers. And then, one Sunday in August 2009, Eva Joly appeared on Egill Helgason talk show.
She spoke calmly and wisely about fighting corruption and economic crimes, as she had done as an investigating judge in France and Norway. Iceland also needed an investigation, Joly said. That night, blogger Cilla Ragnarsdóttir founded a Facebook group: Eva Joly in Iceland! The next morning the group had 8,000 members.
https://www.vprogids.nl/2020/1/inhoud/artikelen/p14-Eva-Joly-over-de-bankencrisis.html
Eva Joly on the banking crisis
Each episode of In Europa is flanked in the VPRO Gids by an interview with an eyewitness of recent history. In episode 3 it is the Norwegian-French ex-investigating judge and politician Eva Joly, who investigated the Icelandic banking crisis. “They’re pretty invisible crimes.”
- Ce dimanche de mars 2009, Cilla Ragnarsdóttir était devant sa télé. Elle a trouvé sa nouvelle héroïne… et sa nouvelle cause à défendre. Cilla avait déjà monté un groupe Facebook sur “l’affaire Icesave”, une des banques en cause. Dans la nuit, elle a créé le groupe “Eva Joly en Islande”. Le lendemain, plus de 8.000 personnes s’étaient inscrites. “La nation pleurait, avait besoin d’une mère et elle est venue, on la compare à la’femme de la montagne’, Fjallkonan, notre symbole national.
Eva Joly offers Icelanders French help
Eva Joly tells NRK about the eve of her consulting role in Iceland
The Special Public Prosecutor’s Office lacks experience in international economic crime investigations. There is still a lack of access to data for the Icelandic study, said Eva Joly on NRK yesterday. Eva claimed in an interview with NRK yesterday that Silfur-Egils is the reason why she was asked to advise the Icelandic government.
“This is the most popular talk show in Iceland, Egil, Eva said and explained her work on the eve of the interview and a Facebookgroup founded by Cilla Ragnarsóttur. Joly was asked if there was any merit in the fact that rich people had moved from Iceland a trunk full of banknotes around the collapse. She considered it a reason to investigate it as vigorously as anything else. Now she wants to offer the Icelanders a French expert to help them, “but of course they decide for themselves whether they accept it:”
DAGENS NYHETER 2009-01-24
Elections in May will not do.
– Today there are completely abnormal ties between political and financial power. We are trying to unite different resistance groups in a phalanx. We want the government to resign immediately, for an emergency government to be appointed, for experts to temporarily take over power until May, when elections are held, says Sigurlaug Ragnarsdóttir, one of the initiators of the New Times protest movement.
The government should resign immediately, demanded several thousand demonstrators in Reykjavik on Saturday. Grassroots are now gathering forces to form a list that will break the long dominance of the Independence Party in Iceland.
Marianne Björklund
https://www.dn.se/arkiv/varlden/islandska-protester-trots-lofte-om-nyval
“The eyes of the world are now on the Icelandic people, who have so far rejected all Icesave demands; requirements to enter into unconditional guarantees for the financial sector. It is my hope that this positive fighting spirit will prevail in the referendum.”
That’s how Eva Joly, member of the European Parliament and ex. advisor to the special prosecutor, in an article in Morgunblaðin today on the occasion of the Icesave elections tomorrow.
“The demands on Iceland are extremely high in light of the small size of the nation. Icesave’s £3.5bn debt is the equivalent of a £700bn claim on UK taxpayers. This claim is controversial and I believe it rests on a dubious legal basis, to put it mildly, not to mention the ethical arguments,” writes Joly.
She goes on to point out that the Irish, Greek and Portuguese and other European nations were “forced to enter into unlimited guarantees of all loans created by market participants, thus alienating both financial institutions and bondholders from all liability… It is in this context the referendum on Icesave is both symbolic and important for Europe and the whole world”.
THE PRESIDENT CHALLENGED TO REJECT THE LAW ON STATE RESPONSABILITY FOR ICESAVE I
The president of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Sigurlaug Þ. Ragnarsdóttir and Hjörtur Hjartarson
ATTAC MOVEMENT IN ICELAND
Íslandsdeild Attac on May 30, 2009. It is part of the international movement for democratic control of the financial markets and their institutions.
Attac was created in France in June 1998. There are branches in 48 countries, and now Iceland is added. Of these 49, 25 are European countries, 12 in South America and 6 in Africa.
There are a total of over 85,000 members in the world.
The association’s common denominator and common demand is that all turnover on capital markets is taxed and the tax earmarked for community projects.
The company’s seven-member board: Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Sigurlaug Ragnarsdóttir, Bjarni Guðbjörnsson, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Salvör Gissurardóttir and Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, who is now the chairman of Efling Union.
“Resolution from the founding meeting of the Attac organization.”
For over twenty years, Iceland has been an experimental center for neoliberalism. The goal was to make Iceland a world-class financial center. The result was a global financial collapse for which the public must now pay. Neoliberalism has been allowed to experiment for too long, and the time has come for a different focus. Societies that have been destroyed by unbridled marketism must now be rebuilt.
Financial activities must be curbed, taxed in the interest of social equality and societies set new goals in the spirit of democratic and welfare societies, where human dignity and transparency will be held in high regard. Just as neoliberalism was the orderly advance of money forces to achieve ideological control, the public now needs to organize itself to advance counter-offensive in the interest of a just society.
The Attac organization demands that the President of Iceland refer the Icesave agreement to the people and thereby ensure a minimum democracy. This is stated in a statement from the organization. It says that Landsbankin’s top managers were able to open Icesave accounts in the hostile system of financial capital and at the instigation of international rating companies to broaden their funding base.
“The Icelandic public has had nothing to do with the matter and bears no responsibility for this creation of financial companies, the offshore island of the City of London and a government that serves international wealth. Attac in Iceland rejects all agreements and demands that Icesave be investigated as a criminal case,” says, among other things. in the statement.
YES TO ICESAVE IS A SURRENDER
“I think it’s surrender. I think it’s like confessing to a crime you haven’t committed,” says Einar Már Guðmundsson, writer and member of the Attac organization, about the yes side. “This is the attitude that it is best to confess to the crime in the hope of getting away.”
- “This is the matter in a nutshell from a philosophical point of view. It also applies to these rating companies. These are the same companies that gave the economic bubble an A+,” says Einar Már, recalling the ratings of the private banks shortly before the collapse.
“There are more people in the same situation as us. It’s much better for humanity in the long run if we say no. We shouldn’t be ruled by threats and fear.” He believes the deal will be scrapped.
Talk to a representative of the Norwegian government
Oslo City Hall Norwegian journalists will have the opportunity to study the Icesave case at a meeting in Oslo in February. Two Icelanders will have to answer.”WE are unhappy that Norwegian aid should be conditional on cooperation with the International Monetary Fund.
- “The meeting went very well. We explained our business, and then we listened to the senators. There were two on our side, one from the Centre Party and the other from the Socialist Left Party, but the Social Democrats were unshakable as they are at home,” author Einar Már Guðmundsson said of a well-attended meeting of the Attac organisation on the Icesave issue in Oslo yesterday afternoon.
Einar Már was accompanied by Bjarni Guðbjartsson and Gunnar Skúli Ármannsson, who are also in Attac, but the writer had one foot in the Norwegian state television studio where he was on his way to a “Spotlight interview” when Morgunblaðið caught up with him says Einar Már Guðmundsson”
Norway need to help Icelanders
Ekeberg believes that the Norwegian administration has not done enough for Iceland. “We are of the opinion that Norway should come to the aid of the Icelanders and stand by them without the conditions of the International Monetary Fund and the British and Dutch. We believe that the Icesave case and the economic plan that the International Monetary Fund has presented for Iceland play a role in deepening the Icelandic financial crisis. Therefore, we consider that Norway is not currently helping Iceland, at the same time that we are in a unique position to help Icelanders with a loan facility, as we have money available in the oil fund.”
Strengthened the bargaining position
Ekeberg believes the need is urgent. “Such a loan would strengthen Iceland’s negotiating position in the Icesave case and in the restoration of the financial system […] We have tried to expose the myth that Norway proved to be a great support for Icelanders during the crisis.”
Ekeberg points out that the British and Dutch have reduced supervision of the financial market. Both nations have allowed Landsbankinn to open and advertise Icesave, and therefore the collapse of the account is not a problem that Icelanders alone have to deal with.
Eva Joly: Iceland has a corruption problem
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