The majority of MPs in the Icelandic parliament, Althingi, approved the proposed amendments to the government’s bill* on state guarantee on the borrowing of the Icelandic Depositors’ and Investors’ Guarantee Fund to compensate Landsbanki’s Icesave depositors in the UK and the Netherlands late on Friday night. . .

Bjarni Benediktsson, chairman of the Independence Party, the largest opposition party, said before the voting on Friday that although his party supported the amendments made to the original bill by the parliament’s Economic and Tax Committee, further changes were required.   24-Aug-09.

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