Third deliberations lead by Pirates progressing slowly
The five parties deliberating to form a new five party majority coalition in government issued a statement yesterday where they inform that tal...
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The rise of the Icelandic krona is affecting the tourist industry
The ever more expensive Icelandic currency, the krona (IKR) is resulting in higher prices for tourists and has already started to harm the tourist ind...
PISA global education survey shows Icelandic education lacking
Icelandic students have never measured poorer in all three areas of OECD’s PISA, global education survey. The 2015 survey found Iceland to be notably ...
A message in a bottle found after eleven years
Well over eleven years ago, a nine-year-old girl, Dagny Lilja Arnarsdottir wrote a message with a nicely drawn picture, placed it in a bottle and thre...
Icelandic Pirate party has the third mandate to form government
Chairwoman of the Pirate party, MP Birgitta Jonsdottir was formally handed the mandate to form a government by the president of Iceland following the ...
Volunteers teaching Syrian families Icelandic
Refugees from Syria have been able to attend Icelandic lessons given by members of public in the town of Akureyri for the past month, the proje...
Left and right government coalition brewing in Iceland
Katrin Jakobsdottir, chair woman of the Left Green party and Bjarni Benediktsson, chairman of the Independence party have informed the president of Ic...
14000 birds euthanized from an “ecological” farm. Icelandic consumers scammed for years
Icelandic consumers are increasingly aware of animal welfare in their consumption of animal products. If you go to a supermarket, you will find a few ...