Wants Denmark to Legislate Equal Pay
The director of the civil servant association in Denmark, Dennis Kristensen, wants the Danish government to do as the Icelandic one and legislate equa...
Politics
Information and news on politics in Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Iceland Not Invited to a US Party in January
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, has sent an invitation to a multinational party early in January. Only the nations that voted with, abstaine...
First Left to Right Government in Iceland
For the first time in Iceland‘s political history, a left-wing Prime Minister is the head of government. The new three-party alliance, which was annou...
Panama Paper Scandal Ministers re-elected to Icelandic Parliament
Both former prime ministers involved in the Panama paper scandals, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, have been re-elected to the I...
Newspaper Stundin handed an injunction from the county magistrates
Representatives of the county magistrate along with a lawyer from Glitnir bank hf., stormed into the offices of newspaper Stundin yesterday issuing an...
Acting Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson Sold Stocks in Glitnir Bank Hours Before Crash
New research made by newspapers Stundin and The Guardian, and Reykjavik Media shows that Bjarni Benediktsson, acting Prime Minister and leader of the ...
The Directorate of Internal Revenue to pay Anna Sigurlaug, wife of former Prime Minister, over 50 million ISK
The Internal Revenue Board has accepted Anna Sigurlaug Pálsdóttir’s, wife of former Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, claim that...
Right-wing extremist Breivik takes his case of mistreatment to Court of Human Rights
Mass murderer and terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik plans to take his case of mistreatment in the Norwegian prison to European Court of Human Rights. ...