Monday, March 15, 2010

Voters in Iceland reject repayment plan



Iceland's voters expressed their outrage this past weekend against bankers, the government and what they saw as foreign bullying, overwhelmingly rejecting a plan to pay $5.3 billion to Britain and the Netherlands to reimburse customers of a failed Icelandic bank. A staggering 93 percent voted "no" in the first public referendum ever held on any subject in Iceland.


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