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Hier après-midi, l’ambassade et la Consule d’Islande en Normandie, Alexandra Le Breton, étaient aux rencontres littéraires du festival les Boréales, à Caen, qui accueillaient deux auteures islandaises...

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...

Of that generation which taught itself how to code and program, Torfi Frans Ólafsson was in the core group around the Icelandic gaming company CCP, creator of Eve Online.  Torfi is now based in L...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Report:The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs on the HF Fund

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...

A world authority on dental trauma and endodontics, Dr. Ásgeir Sigurdsson, Professor of Endodontics at NYU, discusses his career in the US and Iceland, and adds a few words on looking after your teeth...

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...

Chairman of Artic Circle Assembly, Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, former President of Iceland. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, Welcome to Iceland all of you – great to be back at the ...

駐日アイスランド大使館主催でアイスランド語学セミナーが開催されます。 11月16日はアイスランド語の日。アイスランド語は地理的理由により古い言語体系が残され、サガや北欧神話を研究する人はアイスランド語を勉強するのだとか。 大阪大学でアイスランド語の教鞭をとっている南澤 佑樹先生と現在アイスランド大学院に在籍している朱位 昌併氏のお二人を講師としてお招きし、アイスランド語の基礎的な内容から、アイ...

Icelandic artist and prize winning baker and cake-maker Íris Óskarsdóttir-Vail discusses the finer points of baking and cake making, as well as recounting how she ended up running an Icelandic bakery...

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...

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 ...

The State and Challanges of Energy Affairs with reference to the government's climate action targets and emphases

Following the deliberate damage caused to the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, today Defence Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) met virtually to share assessments of the blatant ...