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Ossur Skarphedinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, today addressed the 1st meeting of the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee in Reykjavik. The Committee comprises of 9 parliamentarians from the...

Össur Skarphedinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, met today with George Yeo, Foreign Minister of Singapore, in Reykjavik. Minister Yeo is visiting Iceland 5.-7. October. In their meeting...

Statistics for Treasury finances in January - August 2010 are now available. Treasury finances January - August 2010 (PDF 44 KB)

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, urged Israel not to prevent humanitarian assistance from reaching the needy in Gaza and asked president Ahmadinejad of Iran to spare the ...

In his speech at the meeting of the NATO-Russia council at the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson focused on increased cooperation between ...

Causes and consequences of the banks' collapse, Part 1 When there are hardly enough hours each day to deal with pressing issues, this author is likely not the only one who tends to become preoccup...

Iceland and the surrounding world, Part 5. Iceland is an independent, sovereign state which controls its own destiny. That's the way we want to have it and that's the policy of the Left-Green Move...

A land of opportunities, Part 6. This series of articles entitled “Rising from the Ruins” has looked at the events leading up to and the causes of the collapse which occurred here in Iceland, the ...

Government actions and their success, February 2009 – August 2009, Part 2. A year and a half ago, in the wake of the economic collapse, the coalition of the Left-Green Movement and the Social Demo...

The Icelandic Economy – Status and outlook at midsummer 2010, Part 3. From its own experience, the general public knows all too well how heavy the blow was that struck the Icelandic economy with t...

The tasks ahead, Part 4. Previous articles have looked at the causes and consequences of the banks' collapse, the success which has already been achieved in combating the recession and the nationa...

Slovakia's experience of accession negotiations and membership of the European Union, as well as the effect of financial crisis on Europe's economy, were the main topics of a working lunch, hosted by ...

Statistics for Treasury finances in January - July 2010 are now available. Treasury finances in January - July 2010

Meetings on Icesave-issues were held in Haag between negotiations committees of Iceland, Britain and The Netherlands, on 2. and 3. September. The meetings were useful but nothing has yet been decided ...

Central government debts and assets 2000-2009 (PDF 27 KB), August 2010

Aviation leaders, experts and policy-makers from all over the world will assemble in Iceland in September to discuss the lessons learned from the Eyjafallajökull eruption and how technology, rules, re...

Statistics for Treasury finances in January-June 2010 are now available Treasury finances January - June 2010

At a cabinet meeting this morning the Minister for Foreign Affairs informed that ISK 23 million will be contributed to emergency aid in areas impacted by the monsoon floods in Pakistan. The floods, th...

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