Jón Bjarnason, Iceland’s former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, appointed a new chairman at the Marine Research Institute the day before he was sacked from the cabinet. Read the full story
Posted on 03 January 2012.
Jón Bjarnason, Iceland’s former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, appointed a new chairman at the Marine Research Institute the day before he was sacked from the cabinet. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 November 2011.
The Icelandic Minister of Finance says that it is not wasteful for the state to pay ISK 300 million of taxpayers’ money to buy two plots of land owned by the Reykjanesbaer municipality. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 September 2011.
Iceland will soon have normal access to international financial markets once again, according to the country’s finance minister, who met with foreign banks, ratings agencies and funds in Washington DC this weekend. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 April 2011.
Iceland’s Minister of Finance says that the country’s IMF recovery package is still on course to conclude this autumn. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 April 2011.
With a 60/40 vote against the Icesave repayment deal, Iceland’s Minister of Finance Steingrimur J. Sigfusson says the case will now go to court, but that there are no hard feelings in the Netherlands and the UK. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 April 2011.
Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance, and Katrin Jakobsdottir, Minister for Education, have urged members of their Left Green Movement to vote yes in this Saturday’s Icesave referendum in a column on the party website. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 March 2011.
No big changes are expected to the Icelandic tax system over the next year — although it is not yet possible to be totally certain. So said Minister of Finance Steingrimur J. Sigfusson in parliament yesterday. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 March 2011.
Iceland’s government is set to form a working group to look into the record high petrol and diesel price and what to do about it. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 July 2010.
Icelandic Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir is under pressure to ensure members of her government are free to speak their minds over the purchase of a large majority of the HS Orka geothermal company by Canada’s Magma Energy. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 June 2010.
According to Iceland’s Minister for Finance, Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, further economic tightening in next year’s national budget is the last hurdle on the road to economic recovery and the outlook is already improving, he says. 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
