The British and Dutch governments are preparing to initiate legal action against Iceland to recover from it 4 billion euros were lost due to the collapse of Icelandic banking system This soobschpet BBC. United Kingdom and the Netherlands paid 5 billion euros to its citizens to keep money in savings accounts Icesave Icelandic bank Landesbank, bankrupt in 2008. On the last Saturday in a referendum Icelanders again voted against providing compensation to those countries. Iceland's largest bank, Landsbanki, in 2006-2008 attracted large deposits under the program, offered to investors from the UK and the Netherlands to open savings accounts with extremely favorable to European annual interest rate - 5,0%, which was subsequently increased to 5.25% . However, in October 2008, Landsbanki has faced significant financial difficulties in gaining momentum worldwide economic crisis has been declared bankrupt and was placed under state control. The Bank's activities were suspended and more than 400 thousand depositors in the six-eight weeks could not withdraw their funds from the accounts. As a result, experts estimate that bank customers had lost from 3.8 to 5 billion euros. Britain responded with a strongly worded statement to the authorities of Iceland and has used anti-terrorism legislation to freeze assets of Landsbanki in the UK. Relations between the two countries has significantly increased. In turn, the European Commission has warned that failure to pay compensation to depositors of Icelandic banks could have negative consequences for the ambitions of Iceland regarding EU membership.
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