This week, Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir made history by marrying her partner Jonina Leosdottir to make her not only the world’s first openly gay leader, but also the first gay leader to get married. This week also marks 30 years since Iceland elected the world’s first female president. Read the full story

Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland and leader of the Social Democrats, has told reporters she wants the President’s right to veto new acts of parliament and send them to a public referendum to be removed. Read the full story

Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, believes that food prices have increased too quickly in the last year or two. She told reporters it is essential to reduce inflation and interest rates and to remove currency controls as quickly as possible. Food price hikes are a result of these three factors, she said. Read the full story

Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland believes that this week’s Icesave talks in London were more positive than at first reported. Read the full story

Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland’s Prime Minister, says that there was no secrecy surrounding her meeting on Thursday with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. Read the full story

Press release from the Icelandic Prime Minister’s office:

Ms. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland met today with Mr. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission and Mr Olli Rehn, Commissioner for Enlargement and Commissioner Designate for Economic and Monetary Affairs. Read the full story

Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir is set to visit Brussels this week, mostly to discuss the Icesave issue. Read the full story

The Icelandic men’s handball team landed yesterday at Reykjavik Domestic Airport and were welcomed by the Prime Minister and others. Read the full story

Prime Minister’s Office, Press Release : “I would like to emphasize that the Economic Programme in co-operation with the IMF should continue without interruption, even though a solution to the Icesave matter will be postponed because of the planned national referendum,” the Prime Minister of Iceland, Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir, said today in a letter to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Read the full story

(Press release from Icelandic Prime Minister’s office)

The President of Iceland has declined to sign a law authorising a state guarantee for repayment of loans provided by the UK and the Netherlands to the Depositors‘ and Investors‘ Guarantee Fund, intended to cover payment of the minimum deposit guarantees to depositors in the UK and Netherlands branches of the failed Landsbanki Íslands hf. The law was approved by Althing, the Icelandic Parliament, on 30 December 2009. According to the constitution, the President’s decision not to sign the law requires it to be put to general referendum as soon as possible where it needs to be supported by a simple majority of voters in order to remain in force. In the interim, the law enters into force as passed by the Althingi. The Government will now reflect on the decision of the President and review the situation. Read the full story