Future of Hope is a new feature length documentary about some of the good things that are happening in post banking crisis Iceland. Read the full story
Posted on 20 February 2010.
Future of Hope is a new feature length documentary about some of the good things that are happening in post banking crisis Iceland. Read the full story
Posted on 10 February 2010.
It cost the Icelandic government around GBP 500 (ISK 100,000) per hour to hire British law firm Ashurst to compile its report on Icesave. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 January 2010.
Mineral and oil income is expected, within five years, to surpass the current handouts from Copenhagen that Greenland lives off. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 January 2010.
The financial cost of protecting Mohammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is becoming an increasing burden on the Danish government. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 January 2010.
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, the President of Iceland, has still not announced whether he intends to sign the Icesave Bill into law or not. It is taking an unnecessarily long time, according to Social Democrat MP Sigridur Ingibjorg Ingadottir. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 December 2009.
An Icelander living in the UK has been the victim of vandals at his home – apparently based on the Icesave debacle still causing friction between the two nations. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 December 2009.
Icelanders, and people all over the world, have often asked whether those on low wages really earn enough to properly support themselves and their families. Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration has now unwittingly answered the question. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 December 2009.
Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, Medical Manager at Iceland’s Akureyri Hospital, said at a meeting with Greenlandic counterparts and the country’s Minister for Health that Iceland should send doctors to Greenland. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 December 2009.
Reykjavik city plans to save ISK 45 million per year by cutting back on street lighting, according to Sighvatur Arnarsson, head of the city’s Asset Management department. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 November 2009.
The former head of Straumur investment bank, William Fall told Icelandic television last night that if his claim for withheld wages to the bank’s resolution committee is paid out, the money will be given to charities in Iceland. Fall has claimed ISK 640 million in backdated wages. The matter has been sent to the Reykjavik District Court. Read the full story
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