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16.2.2006

Radio Free Iceland

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This Sunday night we’ll be joined by Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson, live on Radio Free Finland. He is director of the conservative free-market think tank, Veritas, and a regular columnist on The Brussels Journal. He’ll be on to discuss politics and current events in Iceland (and we’ll be sure to talk about the Danish Mohammed cartoons as well)…

Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson is educated in sociology at the FNV College in Sauðárkrókur and in political history at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. He is director of the conservative free-market think tank Veritas and a fellow of the Copenhagen Institute.

Hjörtur is a member of the Icelandic Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) and a member of the party’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also served as chairman of the Foreign Committee of the National Youth Organisation of the Independence Party (Samband ungra sjálfstæðismanna) at its national congress in 2005.

Hjörtur is a founding member of Heimssýn, the cross-political organisation of Icelandic Eurosceptics (founded in 2002). He has been a boardmember of the organisation since 2004 and a boardmember of TEAM, the European alliance of EU-critical movements, on behalf of Heimssýn since 2005.

Furthermore Hjörtur has been editor of the website Heimssyn.is since 2003, the website ‘EU Related News From Iceland’ since 2004 and the website Ihald.is since 2005. He also writes for the website The Brussels Journal.

Hjörtur is also the author of many articles and essays published in a number of Icelandic newspapers and journals on politics and history since 1998.

  • http://www.palun.blogspot.com giustino

    How is being “free-market” conservative? What are you conserving? The Golden Age of Calvin Coolidge? It’s a total misnomer. Libertarian sounds much better.

  • esa

    from wikipedia, “they [conservatists] insist that further change be organic, rather than revolutionary”. i suppose they want to nudge free-market things bit by bit forward, and not all at once, or whatever. (does it make sense?)

  • http://www.palun.blogspot.com giustino

    so then they wouldn’t be libertarians? can you really be both? and if you live in a social welfare state, wouldn’t advocating a radical change in the policies of that state be more revolutionary than conservative? Wouldn’t social dems be the true conservatives in Iceland?

    This is just too messy.

  • TomiA

    Wouldn’t social dems be the true conservatives in Iceland?

    Sosdems believe that the democratic state can be a positive force in changing the society. The conservatives believe that the change should happen in an organic way meaning that it should come about through “natural development” of interaction between people and not through state interference. Often the natural interactions mean markets but not necessarily; religion, for example, can be seen as a institution worth “conserving”. (Libertarians more often than not believe that the market mechanism should take care of almost everything, while reactionaries believe that all was better in their childhood.)

    This difference between “liberals” or sosdems and “conservatives” is not all that clear in Scandinavian countries. In Finland it would mean political suicide to start claiming that everything the sate does is evil, and thus the conservatives tend to be pretty “liberal” (in the American sense) using the state apparatus to further all kinds of good things they believe their voters would appreciate.

  • http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

    How is being “free-market” conservative? What are you conserving?

    The word “conservative” is all relative. Just like the word “liberal” and alot of other political-speak.

  • Pave

    Phil is there anything you can do to this registering problem? I mean some of us can not log in using the domain name or anything as the password. Just thought i’d mention it in case you haven’t noticed. I guess you don’t read the comments on your posts from five days ago…

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