Iceland will open its borders on June 15
At a press conference yesterday, the Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir announced that from June 15, the 14-*day quarantine will not be mand...
Icelandic midwives protest poor wages
In an act of protest, twelve Icelandic midwives who had quit their jobs at The National University Hospital of Iceland left their working shoes on the...
Icelandic Man Arrested After Escaping Prison and Fleeing on Same Plane as Prime Minister
Last week, a man name Sindri Þór Stefánsson, escaped a minimum security prison where he was being held while waiting for a verdict if he would be kept...
No new mandate to form government in Iceland
President Gudni Th. Johannesson, will not give any one party leader the new mandate to form a government in light of the developments during the month...
Bleak outlook for forming government majority in Iceland
Chairwoman of the Left Green party, Katrin Jakobsdottir is meeting with the president Guðni Th. Johannesson today probably to give back the mandate to...
Current coalition government seems doomed in upcoming elections
With only nine days to Election Day on 29 October, the conservative Independence Party and Iceland’s Pirate Party are the country’s most popular parti...
Criticism in Iceland after Arts funding halved
Iceland’s parliament has approved a proposal that would halve the budget it funds for the arts project’s national body, Mynlistarsjodur.
Icesave referendum this Saturday
Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance, and Katrin Jakobsdottir, Minister for Education, have urged members of their Left Green...