The Nordic Council’s spring meeting took place yesterday in Alþingishúsið – the Icelandic national parliament building.
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Nordic Council takes over Icelandic parliament
Posted on 24 March 2012.
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Few wanted to meet Nordic ministers
Posted on 24 January 2012.
For the first time today members of the Nordic Council offered to meet the public before their official meeting; but only four applications were received.
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Nordic Council to help in fight against spinal cord injury
Posted on 04 November 2011.
An Icelandic proposal that the Nordic countries should organise a joint project to search for an effective remedy/cure for spinal cord injuries has been approved by the Nordic Council, meeting this week in Copenhagen.
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Nordic Council to consider spinal cord injury research proposal
Posted on 26 October 2011.
A proposal submitted by the spinal cord injury awareness initiative, Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Iceland (ISCI), has now been passed through for final consideration by the Nordic Council.
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Denmark criticised for deporting vulnerable Nordics
Posted on 24 April 2010.
The Nordic council has slammed the Danish immigration policy, claiming that fellow Nordic citizens are being unacceptably ousted.
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Nordic leaders to meet in East Iceland
Posted on 24 May 2009.
The annual meeting of Nordic Prime Ministers will take place this year in Egilsstadir, eastern Iceland on 14-15 June.
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Joint Nordic air patrols of Arctic on the table
Posted on 21 February 2009.
Discussions over establishing a joint Nordic air patrol that would monitor the regions of the Arctic Sea where ice is disappearing are currently under consideration by the Nordic countries. As global warming causes the normally ice-choked Arctic Sea to break up, the prospect of opening shipping routes through the region is now a real possibility.
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Iceland promotes safety at sea
Posted on 13 January 2009.
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NORDIC COUNCIL: Iceland would like to improve safety at sea in the North Atlantic. Even though the volume of shipping in North Atlantic waters has risen in the wake of climate change, increasing the danger of environmental disasters, adequate risk maps of the area have never been drawn up. In collaboration [...]
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