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...narrow 33-28 vote, the Althingi - the world's oldest parliament - backed formal accession talks with the 27-member E.U. "This is probably the most historic vote in the history of our parliament," Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said after the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland's Urgent Bid to Join the E.U. | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...massive development scheme think Kárahnjúkar will squander some of that wealth for insufficient economic benefit. "We have serious doubts about the old-fashioned industrialist thought" behind the project, says Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, a Left-Green Movement member of the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, and one of a handful of legislators who opposed the Kárahnjúkar project. "We have to do something to reverse the trend of people moving away to seek work, but is this a good solution - one big factory with monotonous jobs?" Arnalds thinks it is. Unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Wealth | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

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