The editor-in-chief of Nordicum-Mediterraneum interviewed Huginn Freyr Þorsteinsson, Political Advisor to the current Icelandic Minister of Finance, on the international economic crisis exploded in 2008 and its troublesome implications for Iceland, to which was devoted a special section in the 2010 issue of the journal. Given the left-wing composition of the current parliamentary majority and the affiliation of the members of the governing cabinet, questions were asked whilst keeping in mind the traditional aims, policies and interpretations of the political left.