Author: Egill Helgason
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Terrified Politicians
Icelanders are heading into their second elections since the economic collapse of October 2008. In April of last year, we…
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Exporting Our Disasters
The twofold catastrophes of financial collapse and volcanic eruption: When I was young, Iceland didn’t make world news a lot….
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Tourist Eruption Takes Heat Off Government
Through the foreign media we learned that there was an emergency in Iceland. True, the main airports were closed, the…
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Davíð Oddsson On The Warpath
In the summer of 2000 I met then leader of the British Conservative Party William Hague. The party was doing…
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Iceland And Its Founding Myths: Isolation or openness
The founding myth of Iceland goes something like this: A bunch of hardy people from the West coast of Norway…
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Cleaning Up The Mess
Noted political and social commentator Egill Helgason has hosted Iceland’s main political debate Show, Silfur Egils (now showing on RÚV,…