Police warn Icelandic apartment owners who rent without licenses
Icelandic apartment owners wanting to provide tourists with short term rental accommodations have received notices from police, who can lawfully inter...
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Danes protest Helsingør Holger Danske statue sale
Locals and politicians alike are protesting the sale of a statue of one of Denmark’s most famous folk heroes, Holger Danske, to foreign art coll...
Kadeco to share algae production opportunities at European Algae Biomass Conference 2013
Kadeco, the Icelandic development company, will be sharing the algae production opportunities at the Ásbru Enterprise Park during ACI’s 3rd annual Eur...
China and Iceland sign free trade agreement
The world’s most populous country has signed a free trade agreement with Europe’s most sparsely populated nation. Iceland can now export m...
Valitor: Europe’s second largest issuing services provider of pre-paid Visa credit cards
Iceland-based acquiring services provider Valitor has been named as Europe’s second largest issuing services provider of pre-paid Visa cards after two...
Copenhagen police headquarters hostage situation was a media hoax
A dramatic hostage situation at Copenhagen’s police headquarters turned out to be a media stunt, said the lawyer representing the prisoner and h...
A third of Greenlandic residents want closer ties with Canada
Greenland’s new premier, Aleqa Hammond, made her first official trip to Denmark on 15 April. However, one in three people who live on this gigan...
Lockout causes teachers to lose faith in Danish government
About 69,000 Danish teachers are still affected by the lockout which has prevented them from coming to work until a new collective bargaining agreem...