The Panama Papers could bring down Iceland’s government and bring the Pirate Party to power
The leak of several million confidential documents created by the corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca – the so called ‘Panama Papers’ – has particular implications for Iceland, with the country’s Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of the Interior all linked to the affair. Benjamin...
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London School of Economics and Political Science
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/70601/ http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/70601/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-The%20Panama%20Papers%20could%20bring%20down%20Icelands%20government%20and%20bring%20the%20Pirate%20Party%20to%20power.pdf http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/ |
| Summary: | The leak of several million confidential documents created by the corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca – the so called ‘Panama Papers’ – has particular implications for Iceland, with the country’s Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of the Interior all linked to the affair. Benjamin Leruth writes that the government is now under severe pressure to call early elections which could well bring the Icelandic Pirate Party to power. |
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