Why Martin Luther King matters to Europe’s Roma
With Roma issues hot in the news in Norway, Finland and Denmark – as well as in many other parts of Europe – Robert Rustem from the Europe...
Generic pharmaceutical company Actavis completes financial restructuring
Actavis Group, the international generic pharmaceuticals company headquartered in Iceland, yesterday announced it has successfully agreed a debt refin...
Walk-in art on display in Reykjavik
On Saturday the 3. July Ingunn Fjola Ingthorsdottir (born 1976) opens her solo exhibition in Gallery Agust (Reykjavik) where she presents the installa...
CBI and FME announce new Iceland foreign currency loan interest rules
The Financial Supervisory Authority and the Central Bank of Iceland have decided to issue guidelines to financial institutions due to non-binding clau...
Iceland lowers interest rates
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to lower Central Bank interest rates by 0.5 percentage points.
Iceland passes law on press freedom and protection
The WikiLeaks-advised proposal to build an international “new media haven” in Iceland, with the world’s strongest press and whistleb...
The View from Here, No. 5
The fifth in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: ‘New Orleans’, in which Chay revisits the city of his birth; still bearing the a...
Central Bank of Iceland takes control of krona denominated bonds
The Central Bank of Iceland, on behalf of itself and the National Treasury of Iceland, has concluded an agreement with the Banque centrale du Luxembou...