Posted on 02 September 2010.
An Icelandic cabinet meeting at the official presidential mansion of Bessastadir has ended and the reshuffle of the government is now official. One departing minister made his last official act to approve a Dutch application to bring old Russian fighter jets to Iceland for international war games. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 September 2010.
The Icelandic government is set for a shake-up in the next few days; probably today or when parliament returns for the first day of the autumn term tomorrow. There will be two fewer ministers than at present. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 August 2010.
Council employees in Denmark have demanded that a picture of two toy figures simulating gay sex be removed from their offices. According to news website lokalavisen.dk, workers at Roskilde Town Hall are in uproar over the cheeky artwork which shows two ‘Duplo’ men getting friendly in a public park. Read the full story
Posted on 16 August 2010.
Embattled Gylfi Magnusson, Iceland’s trade minister, has been invited to a meeting with both government coalition parties this morning. The subject of the meeting will be foreign currency indexed loans. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 July 2010.
Iceland’s Ministry of Finance has today publicly released its treasury accounts for 2009, with a statement saying the figures are better than had been predicted. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 May 2010.
No aspect of public spending in Iceland will be left untouched by cuts next year, according to Gudbjartur Hannesson, the chairman of the parliamentary budgetary committee. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 May 2010.
The Icelandic cabinet met last night in Reykjavik to discuss the nation’s finance and the proposed merger of several ministries. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 April 2010.
Svandis Svavarsdottir, Iceland’s Minister for the Environment, has initiated an internal review at her ministry which will see workers comb the recent Althingi bank crash report and decide if its conclusions should lead to changes within the Ministry for the Environment. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 March 2010.
The Icelandic government yesterday decided to accept the Foreign Minister’s recommendation to close the Iceland Defence Agency. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 February 2010.
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
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Thursday, Sep 2
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