Sauli Niinistö has been elected Finland’s 12th president, with the landslide win by the National Coalition Party marking an end to 30 years of the Social Democrats’ rein. Read the full story
Posted on 08 February 2012.
Sauli Niinistö has been elected Finland’s 12th president, with the landslide win by the National Coalition Party marking an end to 30 years of the Social Democrats’ rein. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 January 2012.
The National Coalition Party has won a first-round victory in the Finnish presidential elections. With a massive 37 percent of the vote, the country’s former finance minister Sauli Niinistö will now face off against Green League candidate Pekka Haavisto (18.8 percent) in the second round on 5th February. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 January 2012.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, has so far kept quiet over the news that a group of supporters has opened a petition website asking the incumbent head of state to stand for re-election in June. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 January 2012.
Potential candidates to become the next President of Iceland are apparently holding off on nominating themselves until the encumbant, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, states without any doubt that he will not stand again. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 January 2012.
The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, announced to the nation in his New Year speech that he will not be running for re-election this year. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 June 2011.
President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson of Iceland is currently in Alaska to give a speech at the opening of an international conference. The conference is on the importance of careful planning for the future shipping lanes slowly being created by melting Arctic ice. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 April 2011.
At a press conference this afternoon, Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson praised the nation’s ability to rationally discuss complicated issues and vote to follow its conscience. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 February 2011.
Those who take up the role of President of Iceland in the future will not be put on a pedestal as before, according to Gudni Th. Johannesson, historian. Read the full story
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Posted on 18 September 2010.
The duty of the President is to speak up for the benefit of the Icelandic nation. So says President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, defending himself once more over allegations that he overstepped the mark when talking to the international press. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 August 2010.
The French-Norwegian MEP, lawyer and fraud investigator, Eva Joly – who is perhaps currently best known as chief advisor to Iceland’s Special Prosecutor into the banking crisis – apparently wishes to nominate herself for election as the president of the French Republic. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
