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30 December 2022 /Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy 2023-2027
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has published Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy for the period 2023-2027. The MTDMS is presented on the basis of the fiscal plan, in accordance with Art...
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22 December 2022 /EUIPO’s Grand Board rules in favour of Iceland
The European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Grand Board of Appeal has rejected all of the requests of the British retail chain Iceland Foods Ltd regarding the use of the word mark Iceland. The c...
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12 December 2022 /Nine tons of Icelandic warmth headed for Ukraine
Nine tons of Icelandic warmth were aboard a Canadian military transport aircraft that left Keflavik Airport headed for Ukraine today. The cargo consists of winter equipment for the armed forces and th...
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01 December 2022 /Opening of an Icelandic Embassy in Warsaw
Iceland opened a new embassy today in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, at...
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24 November 2022 /Human Rights Council adopts resolution on the human rights situation in Iran
Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution tabled by Iceland and Germany to set up an international independent fact-finding mission to investigate ongoing human rights violat...
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24 November 2022 /Better Access and More Efficient Processing of Official Documents Priorities for International Specialists in Iceland
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, hosted a workshop earlier this week where attendees discussed opportunities for improve...
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23 November 2022 /Joint Statement by the Ministers of Defence of the Northern Group
Oslo, Norway, 23 November 2022 Today, representatives of the Northern Group – comprising Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the...
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22 November 2022 /Joint statement by the Ministers of Defence of NORDEFCO
The Nordic Ministers of Defence and representatives met in Oslo today to discuss the grave security situation in Europe, the war in Ukraine, Nordic defence cooperation and the incoming Finnish and Swe...
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11 November 2022 /Joint statement by JEF Defence Ministers
Defence Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) met in Edinburgh on 9-10 November. During the Ministerial, the security situation in Europe, support to Ukraine and collective approaches to se...
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10 November 2022 /Financing for Gender Equality
Today the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs met with Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, who is in Iceland for the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders. The Minister and the Exec...
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09 November 2022 /Iceland takes over the Presidency of the Council of Europe
Iceland took formally over the Presidency of the Council of Europe from Ireland today at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg. This is the third time Iceland assumes the Presidency o...
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09 November 2022 /Open presentation on grants from the Development Fund for Immigration Issues
On Friday, 11 November, the Immigration Council will host an open presentation on the Development Fund for Immigration Issues, and the application process, this year’s focus points and the Fund’s...
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07 November 2022 /Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe held in Iceland
The fourth Summit in the history of the Council of Europe will be held in Iceland on May 16-17, 2023. The Prime Minister of Iceland and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland today announced...
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03 November 2022 /Iceland’s Presidency in the Nordic Council of Ministers 2023
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has presented the programme for the Icelandic Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers for 2023. The Prime Minister presented the one-year Presidency programme ...
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02 November 2022 /Call for Applications for grants from the Development Fund for Immigration Issues
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Immigration Council invite applications for grants from the Development Fund for Immigration Issues. The Fund's purpose is to enhance research and de...
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02 November 2022 /Report on the State and Challenges of Energy Affairs
The Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate has issued an english translation of its energy report — The State and Challenges of Energy Affairs with reference to the government‘s climate...
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31 October 2022 /Female foreign ministers publish joint statement on women's rights in Iran
Sixteen female foreign ministers met online on 20th October to discuss the serious human rights violations taking place in Iran, not least against women and children. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadó...
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20 October 2022 /Report to Althingi on the HF-Fund’s position and the next steps
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has issued a report on the status of the HF-Fund. The report sets out scenarios for possible evolution of the fund over the coming decades, given assumed c...
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13 October 2022 /Declaration on Future Cooperation between Greenland and Iceland
Today, the prime minister of Greenland Mr. Múte B. Egede and the Prime Minister of Iceland Ms. Katrín Jakobsdóttir signed a declaration in Reykjavik on future cooperation between the two countries. In...
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11 October 2022 /Gender Equality Forum focuses on the status of women of foreign origin in the Icelandic labour market
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir convenes the 2022 Gender Equality Forum in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center on October 26th. The theme for discussion will be the status of women of foreign ...