A majority of people in Iceland want to complete negotiations on the country’s accession to the European Union and then vote on the final contract in a referendum. Read the full story

Icelanders’ belief in a positive future for their country appears to be growing, according to a new poll. Read the full story

The majority of candidates in the parish elections for the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church support gay relationships, according to a new survey. Read the full story

A new Capacent Gallup poll found that only a quarter of respondents want Iceland to join the European Union, but many do not know why. Read the full story

The second in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Hollywood takes on Iceland Read the full story

Iceland currently has 53 football players playing abroad. Not bad for a little country marooned in the North Atlantic Ocean, or is it? Read the full story

The British have started to feel ashamed of themselves for the fact that their government is pushing Iceland to take on an unbearable debt burden for Icesave – so says the Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator of British newspaper The Financial Times. Read the full story

Professor Oystein Noreng of the Norwegian School of Management argued in his column for Dagsavisen this weekend that Norway should support Iceland financially, and potentially even enter into monetary union with Iceland and jointly co-manage fish stocks. Read the full story

An increasing number of British newspaper publishers and columnists are beginning to challenge the overall national perception of the week’s events regarding the President of Iceland’s decision to send the Icesave Bill to the nation. According to Michael Hudson in The Financial Times, Icelanders have been offered a way to describe their fears that the country could literally be ruined by taking on irresponsible or unnecessary levels of debts and interest rates. Read the full story

Icelanders were this morning surprised and somewhat amused to see that their Prime Minister, Geir H. Haarde was included on The Guardian’s list of the top 25 people responsible for the global economic crisis.

Haarde is widely held responsible for Iceland’s crisis, as recent stories on this very website confirm – but that he is responsible for bringing the whole planet to its knees comes as a slight eyebrow-raiser. Read the full story