The Georgiou affair: how Greece keeps failing the political corruption test
After the election in Greece last summer, the country seemed to be on a positive path away from populism towards a more stable political environment. Though born into his party New Democracy, the new...
View ArticleCOVID-19 in Iceland – medical success (so far) but what do Icelanders really...
The Icelandic COVID-19 policy was less severe than in Denmark and, belatedly, in the UK. Iceland followed WHO guidelines to test, trace and then isolate – and COVID-19 cases have next to disappeared....
View ArticleThe old saga of “relative stability” and why fisheries are such a Brexit...
Principle of “relative stability” may sound like a concept from international geopolitics but as those, who follow European fisheries, know it is the principle by which the EU allocates fish catches to...
View ArticleWhy fisheries are such a difficult part of Brexit
“I’m sure it must be (published somewhere) but I don’t know where,” was the answer I got from an insider in one of the UK fisheries organisations in response to an email, asking where the “relative...
View ArticleGreensill’s 2014 private loans to related parties
Having learned about finance from the collapse of the three largest Icelandic banks in 2008, I’m always curious to see companies rapidly enjoying an incredibly rapid success only to drop into...
View ArticleGreensill’s grand idea: close connections, jets and convoluted relationships
For anyone interested in cross-lending and cross-ownership, the collapse of the Icelandic banks provides insights into its effects: the meteoric growth and how opacity hides transactions between...
View ArticleThe Georgiou case: the ongoing decade-old shameful saga for Greece
Among foreign colleagues and international statistical organisations, the case of the former president of ELSTAT, Andreas Georgiou is a cause for grave concern. After Greece was found to have been...
View ArticleThe Georgiou case: from bad to worse, also for Greece
Parts of Greece are consumed by horrifying wildfires but in the Greek legal system there is a slow-burning fire exposing Greek corruption, linked to the Greek financial crisis of more than a decade...
View ArticleAndreas Georgiou and the eternal wait for justice in Greece
The case of Andreas Georgiou has again surfaced in the Greek media – a case that’s still unresolved, leaving Georgiou living with the same uncertainty as in the last decade, and potentially facing...
View ArticleLuxembourg: a graveyard of financial fraud?
It’s now long since the fateful days in early October when the three main banks in Iceland collapsed, a story well told in an investigative report in April 2010 and on Icelog over the years. However,...
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