Iceland to withdraw EU membership bid amid protests
Iceland is to withdraw its membership bid for the EU without holding the referendum that the two ruling parties had previously promised, the governmen...
Icelandic finance minister: debt relief plans won’t affect budget surplus
Iceland’s household debt relief plans will not threaten the 2014 budget surplus, according to Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson.
Iceland confident of removing capital controls blocking billions
Iceland is confident it will soon be able to remove capital controls that are blocking assets worth around $7.2bn being offloaded, revealed the prime ...
UK pleased but cautious over Iceland mackerel negtiations
The British mackerel industry has said it is pleased Iceland has decided to restart negotiations with Norway and the EU over mackerel quotas.
Iceland PM battles EU mackerel sanctions
Iceland’s prime minister has stated he believes that the European Commission will not enforce sanctions because of the country’s overfishing of macker...
Iceland opts out of joining EU
Iceland has withdrawn its bid to join the European Union, announced its foreign minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson.
Statement from Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture
“We were pleased to welcome EU Commissioner Maria Damanaki to Iceland last week to discuss the ongoing debate over mackerel fishing rights in the Nort...
Iceland PM says debt could be written off this year
Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has said that his country could strike an agreement with its foreign creditors to write off its debt bef...