As Finland’s top three political parties suffered losses in the recent European elections, the country’s nationalistic True Finns party captured their first European parliament seat ever. True Finns support base has grown impressively since its weak 0.5 percent showing in the previous 2004 Euro elections. Read the full story

Having secured more than seven percent of Sweden’s votes in the recent European Parliament elections, the country’s file sharing advocacy group, the Pirate Party, is heading to Brussels to make its voice heard among EU policy makers. While it was predicted beforehand that the Pirates would take one seat in Parliament, the political party’s supporters were ecstatic when their suspicions became reality. Read the full story

Recent polls suggest that Sweden’s newest political group, the Pirate Party, may have a decent chance of winning a seat in the European Parliament on the back of popular support against the guilty verdict handed down in the Pirate Bay trial. With strong backing from younger voters in Sweden, this upstart political party may just produce an upset. Read the full story

Highlights of the final Capacent Gallup Iceland election opinion poll released last night: Read the full story

Head of Iceland’s Social Democrats and former Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir has confirmed that she intends to run for parliament again at the upcoming elections in April. Read the full story

Jonas Abel Mellado has put himself forward for the third or fourth seat of the Social Democrats in North Iceland for the upcoming election. Jonas is a 22 year-old assistant at a Bonus supermarket in Akureyri.

Jonas was born and raised in Akureyri and is also a student in the languages department at Menntaskolinn in Akureyri. Read the full story

Most people in Iceland are looking forward to the early elections at the end of April. Some are looking forward to kicking the current ‘imposters’ out and putting the business-savvy Independence Party back where it belongs to get on with rebuilding the economy. Read the full story

Geir Haarde this afternoon spoke to journalists explaining that the government coalition between his Independence Party and the Social Democrats is now over. He will officially inform President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson of the situation at 16.00 this afternoon at the President’s Bessastadir residence. Read the full story

The 16th protest meeting organised by the Voice of the People group took place outside the Icelandic parliament in Reykjavik this afternoon with an estimated 5,000 participants.

The protesters gathered, as usual, to protest the handling of the economic crisis in Iceland and to call for the resignations of the government and the boards of the central bank and the financial supervisory authority. Read the full story

The Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde, in a press conference held at noon today, announced he will be stepping down as the leader of the Independence Party due to his grave health condition. He has been diagnosed with a malignant cancer of the oesophagus. Read the full story