A new poll suggests that more than half of Icelanders do not want to join the European Union. The University of Iceland’s Social Science Research Institute polled 1,900 people and found that 54 percent are against assimilation into the 27-country bloc. Continue Reading

At Monday's (30. April) meeting of the EEA Joint Committee, Iceland presented a statement on the Commission proposal for a "Regulation on certain measures in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing for the purpose of the conservation of fish stock".  Continue Reading

Icelanders' earnings were spread more evenly in 2011 than any year since 2004 - when Statistics Iceland began its standard-of-living research. Continue Reading

The EU plans to bring forward its decision on sanctions against Iceland and the Faroe Islands over the ongoing mackerel dispute. Irish officials say it will be difficult to discuss fishing in Iceland's accession talks before the dispute is resolved. Continue Reading

The European Parliament yesterday ratified a committee report from February on Iceland's EU accession talks. The report and parliamentary debate were generally positive on Iceland; although there is concern about the discussion surrounding the EU in the country. Continue Reading

Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Social Democratic Minister for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, has ignited controversy within the coalition government with comments that it is much too late for his Left Green colleague, Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson, to now be calling for EU accession talks to be sped up, because he and his allies have been the biggest factor delaying them before now. It does not serve Iceland's best interests to start rushing the negotiations now, Össur says. Continue Reading

This week's Reykjavík mackerel fishing negotiations between Iceland and the Faroe Islands on one side and the EU and Norway on the other have ended without agreement and with the EU's fishing chief blaming Icelandic and Faroese unwillingness to properly engage in negotiations. Continue Reading

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Iceland's Minister of Fisheries, has told the media that he is optimistic for a positive outcome to new mackerel negotiations which began in Reykjavík yesterday. Continue Reading

A project to pump carbon dioxide into the ground near to the Hellisheiði power station began at the end of January. Continue Reading

Former Icelandic government minister Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson (1987-95) says that the battle for Iceland's natural resources is not against the European Union and that is a purely domestic fight, he told a conference. Continue Reading