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
Posted on 16 January 2012.
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
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Posted on 05 October 2011.
Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland, says she wants the nation to have the opportunity to vote on Iceland’s proposed new constitution. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 August 2011.
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
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Posted on 30 July 2011.
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
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Posted on 19 July 2011.
Iceland’s constitutional council has put forth the first draft for a new constitution for Iceland in its progress report. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 July 2011.
The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, says that the draft of the new Faroe Islands’ constitution is incompatible with Denmark’s constitution and cannot co-exist with it. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 March 2011.
A parliamentary resolution on the forming of a constitutional council has passed Iceland’s Althingi parliament. The council will be held instead of a constitutional parliament, because the public election result was voided by the Supreme Court. Read the full story
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Posted on 25 February 2011.
An Icelandic parliamentary committee has recommended that the 25 people elected to the country’s constitutional assembly should be appointed directly by parliament to a similar body after the election was invalidated on technical grounds. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 February 2011.
The Supreme Court of Iceland yesterday rejected a request that it re-examine its decision to void last year’s election to the country’s first ever constitutional assembly. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 February 2011.
Some of those elected to Iceland’s constitutional assembly will today appeal to the Supreme Court of Iceland to reconsider its decision to nullify the election on technical grounds. The ruling was wrong, they claim. Read the full story
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Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Mythical Icelandic monster captured on film?
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