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Ministry of Finance, Press Release No. 14/2009 The Government of Iceland has taken steps to strengthen and streamline the process of negotiations between the three new banks created in the wake of th...

    Professor Valur Ingimundarson, Chairman of the interdisciplinary Commission for a Risk Aassessment for Iceland, today delivered the Commission’s report to the Minister for Fo...

The government of Iceland has approved a bill from the Minister of Finance to establish, as a limited liability company owned by the state, an Asset Management Company (AMC) to promote the restructuri...

The governing coalition of the Social Democratic Alliance and Left-Green Movement intends to submit a bill to the Althingi greatly extending the authorisation of the Special Prosecutor to gather and d...

Treasury finances January 2009 (PDF 55K) Cash Flow Statement in January 2005–2009 Millions of krónur 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Revenue 29 894 41 132 51 972 ...

At a meeting held on 3 February, the Government of Iceland approved a proposal from the Prime Minister to conclude a contract with the international corporate advisory firm Hawkpoint to work under the...

The Prime Minister has today appointed two expert members to the Monetary Policy Committee, as provided for in provisions of Act No. 36/2001, on the Central Bank of Iceland, as subsequently amended. T...

As provided for in Temporary Provision II of the Act Amending the Act on the Central Bank of Iceland, the Prime Minister today appointed Svein Harald Øygard provisionally to the position of Governor o...

The government’s bill amending the Central Bank Act has been passed by the Icelandic parliament Althingi. Major changes are made to the Central Bank’s administrative structure, its Governo...

Treasury finances January-December 2008 (PDF 53K) Cash Flow Statement in January–December 2004–2008   Millions of krónur 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Revenue ...

On 29 January 2009, NATO and the Government of Iceland jointly organized a seminar in Reykjavik to discuss the challenges facing the Allies in the High North. The participants agreed that the conf...

Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphedinsson, met with the Foreign Minister of Albania, Lulzim Basha, on February 12 during his visit to Iceland to discuss NATO’s enlargeme...

The Icelandic delegation to the Organizsation for Security and co-operation in Europe, OSCE, in Vienna has invited the organization to observe the early, parliamentary elections, planned for this spri...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Icelandic Foreign Minister, talked about the Icelandic economy, European issues and fisheries with David Frost on the television station Al Jazeera last week. The Foreign Mi...

The Coordination Committee which has the overall responsibility of developing, implementing and communicating a comprehensive strategy for bank restructuring published its first report today at a pres...

A cabinet meeting this morning dealt with questions concerning the reconstruction of the financial system and endorsed a work programme for the Co-ordination Committee appointed to work on this task p...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs today received, on behalf of his Nordic colleagues, a report by Thorvald Stoltenberg, former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence of Norway, on N...

Today, 6 February, Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir introduced a bill of legislation in the Icelandic parliament Althingi amending the Act on the Central Bank of Iceland. The amendments would rep...

Meeting of the Executive Board of The United Nations Children´s Fund The United Nations, New York 5 February 2009 Statement by the Permanent Representative of Iceland Dr. Gunnar Pálsson  ...

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