The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has declared that his country will embark on a range of ambitious projects aimed at increasing the national GDP over the next decade. Continue Reading

This morning begins a very high profile weekend for the internet in Iceland with today’s Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and the accompanying high-tech expo which runs until Sunday. Continue Reading

A new report released yesterday ranks Iceland as the world’s innovation hotspot, stealing the crown from the USA. Continue Reading

The 'Energy for Debt' proposal is able to revitalise the Icelandic economy very quickly and direct structural development in the right (i.e. 21st century, with all its energy/resource deficit-based) direction. Good for Iceland, good for the UK, good for Holland. Continue Reading

Iceland’s Ministry of Finance last year hired one of the most sought after PR companies in the world to protect Icelandic interests abroad and liaise with foreign media. Continue Reading

Thousands of Swedish students have been inadvertently given a link to a hardcore pornography website as part of a ‘child-friendly’ magazine about banking. Continue Reading

EllaOne is a new emergency contraception pill that can be taken up to five days after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. However, the new pill is so contentious that most of the Finnish public and even GPs do not know of them as they have been outlawed from professional physicians’ journals. Continue Reading

A deal between Swedish biotech firm Ellen AB and Chinese company Beijing Zhonglian Pharmaceutical saw shares in the Scandinavian company soar last week on the back of an announcement to distribute probiotic tampons “bathed in human lactic acid bacteria” in the Asian country. Continue Reading

The American pop star Beyoncé Knowles arrived unannounced at a London Topshop yesterday to buy leggings from the Icelandic E-Label brand. Continue Reading

(UPDATED 16 November) A group of 1,200 Icelanders considered statistically representative of the population was brought together Saturday for the first time in an attempt to “harvest the wisdom of the crowd”. Continue Reading