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

Iceland’s Constitutional Council handed over the formal draft of its proposed new Icelandic constitution to the president of Althingi at a festive ceremony in Reykjavik yesterday. Read the full story

The Icelandic Althingi parliament is coming up to its summer break and MPs have been winding up with some pretty heated and personal debates. Read the full story

The government in Reykjavik has survived yesterday’s vote of no confidence with a margin of 32 votes against 30. One MP abstained. Read the full story

Iceland’s opposition Independence Party has put forth a bill of no confidence in the government to parliament. It will be debated and voted on this evening. Read the full story

Icelandic fisheries and agriculture minister Jon Bjarnason says he does not support a government bill which would change the way ministries are organised. He believes the bill would put too much power in the hands of the prime minister. Read the full story

Following yesterday’s resignations from the parliamentary Left Green Movement, the Icelandic government still has a working majority; but could also prove fatally weak under certain circumstances. Read the full story

Althingi, Iceland’s national parliament, has voted in favour of a bill that would repay Britain and the Netherlands for money lost when Landsbanki collapsed along with its high interest Icesave accounts in the two countries. Read the full story

Why is it that the curtains are always closed in the debating chamber of Iceland’s Althingi parliament? This was one of the questions asked during debating yesterday; and the question was followed with a poem. Read the full story

A spying computer which was found hidden within Iceland’s Althingi parliament building had apparently been on-site for over five weeks, it has come to light. The story was only revealed recently, although the actual discovery was made on 2nd February last year. Read the full story