The committee monitoring the state of finances among Iceland’s municipal governments is working on ten cases of severe council debt. Read the full story

The Dutch government has fallen over differences within the ruling coalition on the contentious issue of the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Read the full story

At least nine out of every ten people to have lost their jobs in Iceland worked in the private sector. At the same time as the number of private sector jobs has decreased, the number of public sector jobs has actually gone up. Read the full story

A group of people who purchased shares in Glitnir Bank after the state took possession of a 75 percent stake on the 29th September last year, is planning to sue the Icelandic government for the refund of its members’ money. Read the full story

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ICELANDIC GOVERNMENT:

* Principal conditions set by the Icelandic Althingi incorporated in supplementary agreements

* Acceptance and Amendment Agreements concluded subject to approval by Althingi of amendments to legislation

* Trilateral statement by Ministers of Finance on progress of Iceland’s Economic Recovery Programme in co-operation with the IMF Read the full story

Kuupik Kleist, the Prime Minister of Greenland, has supported a move to increase rental prices by up to 50 percent on some government owned properties. Read the full story

Norway’s coalition government will meet next week to discuss the possibility of a new political platform after the three parties were all returned to power in the recent election. Read the full story

The legal drugs market has finally been cracked open now that Sweden’s state-run monopoly on pharmacies has officially ended. This will allow new companies to sell prescription medications and eventually over-the-counter sales of non-prescription drugs in retail outlets. Read the full story

With many pre-voting polls showing that Denmark will be getting a new coalition government in the next national election, this may well mark the end of legal prostitution in the country. The Social Democrats have announced they are planning add a ban on the purchase of sex to their party platform. Read the full story

All of Norway’s government ministers, several thousand state employees, and even the royal family itself have been under illegal surveillance by the country’s Defence Security Services for quite some time. Although the defence agency is responsible for monitoring information security in Norway, they appear to have been doing it illegally. Read the full story