The Icelandic parliament has voted to begin the process of making surrogate mothers legal. Read the full story

The number of Icelandic government ministers will drop to eight later this year, the country’s PM says. Read the full story

The chairman of the Icelandic parliament’s constitutional and supervisory committee has said she thinks it is not unlikely  that the country’s proposed new constitution will be put to a national referendum. Read the full story

Cleaning the Icelandic parliament building after last year’s protests on the first day of the autumn term had the same impact on the old building as a hundred years of erosion, according to Asta Ragnheidur Johannesdottir, the President of Althingi (speaker of the house). Read the full story

Iceland’s Althingi parliament this morning reconvened for its autumn session, but MPs were met by many hundreds of noisy protesters — something which used to be rare but has become normal since the economic crisis hit in 2008. Read the full story

The opening of the new session of the Icelandic parliament will be unusually workaday; as money saving ideas curtail the pomp and ceremony. Read the full story

Icelandic parliamentarians were exceptionally busy on Saturday, passing 20 new laws and agreeing to end the summer term that day. Read the full story

The leaders of Iceland’s parliamentary political parties yesterday held informal discussions about ending Althingi’s summer term. However, the Prime Minister’s bill on changes to government ministries is still in its second reading and shows no sign of being resolved soon. Read the full story

Iceland’s parliament, Althingi, has reconvened today after its summer break. Over the next two weeks MPs will try to clear all business left over from the summer. Following that, all unfinished business will be discarded and Althingi will start its autumn term with a clean slate. Read the full story

The Constitutional Council’s proposed new national constitution will be debated by the Icelandic parliament in October, it has been announced. Read the full story