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24 April 2023 /Exercise Dynamic Mongoose taking place in the North Atlantic
Eleven Allied nations are set to take a part in Dynamic Mongoose 2023, a large-scale Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise in the North Atlantic from April 24 to May 5. Iceland is the primary hos...
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24 April 2023 /Annual Strategic Dialogue between the US and Iceland
The annual Strategic Dialogue between Iceland and the United States took place in Washington, Friday, April 21. The security situation in the Euro-Atlantic area following Russia's war of aggression ag...
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18 April 2023 /Service visits of US submarines authorised
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland has informed the Government of the United States that nuclear-powered submarines of the US Navy will be authorised to make a brief service visit in Iceland ...
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29 March 2023 /Medium-term Fiscal Strategy Plan 2024-2028: to counter inflation, safeguard living standards and support growth
The government's fiscal strategy plan for the next five years lays out its strategy to utilise fiscal policy in a targeted manner to counter inflation and overheating by increasing expenditure restrai...
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28 March 2023 /Investing in Children – the Key to Prosperity
Ásmundur Einar Daðason, Minister of Education and Children in Iceland, and the Council of Europe will host a conference on March 30 on the advantages of investing in children. The event is organized a...
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28 March 2023 /Iceland hosts first ever CDENF meeting outside of Strasbourg
The Ministry of Education and Children in Iceland hosts a meeting for the Council of Europe Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child (CDENF) in Reykjavik, Iceland on March 28 and 29. The ev...
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15 March 2023 /Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs visited Ukraine and met with Volodomyr Zelensky
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister for Foreign Affairs Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir met with President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelensky in Kyiv yesterday. The situation in Ukraine, I...
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14 March 2023 /Head start for Icelandic
Icelandic was chosen as the first language, other than English, to feature in the development phase of the latest version of OpenAI's GPT-4 project, which was officially announced today. Icelan...
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11 March 2023 /Fitch Affirms Iceland at ‘A’; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Iceland´s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘A’ with a Stable Outlook. According to Fitch, Iceland’s ‘A’ rating is underpinned by its very high incom...
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27 February 2023 /Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council
Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed the beginning of the 52nd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on behalf of Iceland today. ...
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24 February 2023 /Brutal aggression against Ukraine – One Year On
Today, the 24th of February, marks one year since the launch of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. On this occasion, the international community has come together to show solidarit...
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09 January 2023 /Iceland ratifies the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education
On December 5, 2022, Iceland and Andorra ratified the UNESCO Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, thus becoming the 19th and ...
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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...