Sweden and Denmark going postal together
In one of the more unusual mergers of the year, the national postal services of Sweden and Denmark have signed an agreement to combine their two agenc...
Politics
Information and news on politics in Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Coordination Committee publishes its first report
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ICELANDIC PM’S OFFICE: The Coordination Committee which has the overall responsibility of developing, implementing and co...
Iceland president clarifies German savings position
STATEMENTFROM THE PRESIDENT OF ICELAND: Following a misleading report of an interview with the President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson in the Fina...
Stoltenberg Report presented to Nordic Foreign Ministers
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN ICELAND: Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs today received, on behalf of his Nor...
Platform of the Government – Report from the Prime Minister
Press release from the Prime Minister of Iceland Mr Speaker, fellow Icelanders. It can have escaped no one that our country is passing through a deep ...
The banking crisis in Iceland in 2008
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CENTRAL BANK OF ICELAND: Ingimundur Fridriksson Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland has prepared a paper about the banking ...
Iceland – the new EU member?
Olli Rehn, member of the European Commission responsible for enlargement, has stated that Iceland would be a welcome addition to the Union, MBL report...
Swedish ships heading to fight pirates off Somalia
Sweden is set to send three of its naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to help in the international effort to fight the scourge of piracy that has engul...