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The booklets cover important and useful information in seven languages for immigrants planning to settle in Iceland. The information is presented both in Icelandic and the foreign language in each bo...

Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson last night met with  European Commissioner for Enlargement Štefan Füle who is on a visit to Iceland. During their meeting, Minister Skarphéðinsson and Commis...

An Intergovernmental Conference was held in Brussels today between Iceland and the EU on two chapters in the current Accession negotiations; free movement of workers and intellectual property rights. ...

The Prime Minister today received the Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Füle in the Government House.  They discussed the progress in the negotiations for accession of...

Statistics for Treasury finances in January -August 2011 are now available. Treasury-finances-January-August-2011

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, has submitted a proposal to Althingi for a Parliamentary Resolution on the Recognition of the Independence and Sovereignty of Palestine wi...

Össur Skarphéðinsson Minister for Foreign Affairs met yesterday with Guido Westerwelle, Germany‘s Minister for Foreign Affairs, prior to the opening of the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Iceland is&#...

The European Commission today published a progress report on the status in Iceland‘s accession negotiations with the European Union. The main conclusions are that Iceland continues to fulfil all polit...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is deeply disappointed with the verdict in the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison ye...

A new study on creative industries in Iceland, Towards Creative Iceland: building local, going global has found that they generated turnover of ISK 1891 billion in 2009, accounting for 6.36% of t...

A final report from a 5 week effort to analyze the performance of the Icelandic health care system and identify opportunities for short term savings and more long term Health Care reform. The Boston C...

The Foreign Ministers of Iceland and Norway, Össur Skarphéðinsson and Jonas Gahr Støre, announced yesterday the establishment of a new professorship in the field of Arctic studies at the University of...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that Iceland was determined to fully recognize Palestine and that he will next week put ...

32 posters by senior Icelandic Graphic Designer Goddur will be on display at the Beijing Design Week. The exhibition will take place in the L-Building on Power Square in the newly refurbished 751 D•Pa...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs,  participates in the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York. The Minister has declared that Iceland will support Pales...

Updated: November 2018 The Social Security Act, No. 100/2007 as amended by Act No. 105/2007, No. 160/2007, No. 17/2008, No. 57/2008, No. 112/2008, No. 155/2008, No. 173/2008, No. 55/2009, N...

Social Assistance Act, No. 99/2007 Originally Act No. 118/1993. Amended by Act No. 160/2007, No. 112/2008, No. 120/2009, No. 162/2010, No. 164/2010, No. 106/2011, No. 126/2011, No. 8/201...

Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini, declared full support to Iceland's application to the European Union during a meeting he had this morning with Ossur Skarphedinsson, Minister for...

Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade Katrín Juliusdottir and Hoang Tsung Hai, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, signed an Air Transport Agreement between Ice...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-July 2011 are available now. Treasury finances January-July 2011 (PDF 150 KB)