The Icelandic media have naturally been paying a lot of attention to the British parliamentary committee’s conclusions on the Icelandic banking collapse. The fact that Chancellor Alistair Darling comes in for criticism from a committee of British MPs is being seen as something of a vindication: the British made Iceland’s crisis worse than it needed to have been. But then nothing is ever that black and white.
The fact that the media is all over this report comes as no surprise; but the Icelandic and British media are choosing to focus on different sections of it.
British papers are flagging the committee’s recommendation that charities should be reimbursed by the UK government for lost savings in Icelandic banks, but that local councils should not (because they should, apparently, have known better).
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