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The right to vote Under the Local Government Elections Act, all persons in the following categories who were born on or before 31 May 1996 have the right to vote in the local government elections on 3...

A proposal has been put forward in Parliament on the withdrawal of Iceland‘s application for accession to the European Union and on entrusting the Government with strengthening cooperation with the EU...

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, deplores that the President of Uganda has signed an Anti-Homosexuality Bill which further criminalizes homosexuality and makes it punis...

The Minister of Health has approved a policy until 2020 on alcohol and drug prevention. Quantifiable targets will be defined on the basis of this policy and a plan of action will be drawn up to work t...

Iceland joins other participating States of the OSCE, including member states of the European Union, in expressing alarm at the situation in Ukraine, condemning the violence and calling for de-escal...

Having been tasked by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in October last year to produce a report on the assessment of the status of accession negotiations between Iceland and the European Union and d...

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture of Iceland, has expressed disappointment with the Pelly Amendment certification of Iceland by the US Department of Interior due to Icel...

The Nordic Foreign and Defence Ministers met today in Keflavík, Iceland, where the joint Nordic air defence exercise Iceland Air Meet 2014 is taking place – a strong manifestation of Nordic defenc...

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson Iceland´s Minister of Fisheries has expressed disappointment that negotiations on mackerel between the Coastal States in London this week have not resulted in an agreement be...

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson Iceland´s Minister of Fisheries has expressed great dissapointment that negotiations on mackerel between the Coastal States in Bergen this week have not resulted in an agreeme...

The Parliament of Iceland has adopted a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Iceland and China, the first FTA signed between China and a European country. Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson put the...

The only large shark utilised for human consumption in Iceland is Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), which is according to IUCN listing not vulnerable or endangered. Almost all Greenland shark...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Fulbright Commission have signed an agreement to set up a Fulbright scholar grant in Arctic Studies. Through this agreement the Ministry for Foreign Affairs ...

The licence is granted to CNOOC Iceland ehf. as operator with 60 % share, Eykon Energy ehf with 15 % share and Petoro Iceland AS with 25 % share. CNOOC Iceland ehf. is a daughter company of CNOOC In...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-November 2013 are now available. Treasury finances January-November 2013 (PDF 50 KB)

In our increasingly interdependent world all of us are affected by climate change and other global developments that have brought new challenges and opportunities. Based on many studies, the Nordic co...

A new online platform compiling the most influential and cutting edge music from the Nordic countries was launched this week on the web. Nordic Playlist makes it easy to discover and stay updated ...

The Central Bank of Iceland and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs have negotiated an extension of the maturity date of the bond issued by the Treasury at the end of 2008 to strengthen the c...

The Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Sigurdur Ingi Jóhannsson, in collaboration with the government of Iceland, has determined the whaling permit for 2014-2018. The permit is based on the advic...

The Nordic Working Group of Economic Trends has published its review called "The Economic Outlook in the Nordic countries 2014“.  The review is a yearly publication. It contents as previous yea...