(AFP) – Iceland’s Left-Green movement said Wednesday it had failed in its bid to form a new coalition government, three weeks after snap elections triggered by the Panama Papers scandal. Allied with the anti-establishment Pirate Party, the Social Democrats and
REYKJAVIK, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Support for Iceland’s Pirates in parliamentary elections has turned out lower than anticipated, making it less likely that the anti-establishment party will be part of a new government, early election results showed on Sunday.
Determined to put the Panama Papers scandal and the 2008 bankruptcy behind them, Icelanders will vote on Saturday in a snap election that could see the anti-establishment Pirate Party form a new centre-left coalition.
(REUTERS) – Iceland would welcome Britain, its biggest trading partner, back into the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Icelandic Foreign Minister Lilja Alfredsdottir said on Wednesday in London.
The President of Iceland has welcomed Britain’s exit from the European Union, voicing hopes that the UK will now strengthen it’s relationship with Iceland, Greenland and Norway. President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson said the vote to leave the EU represented a “serious
(AFP) – Cabinet ministers, bankers and CEOs: the offshore companies at the heart of the leaked Panama Papers have drawn large numbers of Iceland’s elite into a scandal that has already brought down the country’s premier. The documents from the
Hours before his resignation, mobs swarmed onto the streets in Reykjavik demanding Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson resign after his name appeared in a giant finance law firm leak known as the Panama Papers.
Dogged by allegations he concealed multi-million dollar investments in an offshore company, the prime minister of Iceland has resigned after his request for the president to dissolve parliament was refused. Local media reports the Prime Minister’s move must be approved
(AFP) – Thousands of Icelanders took to the streets late Monday calling for their prime minister’s resignation after leaked tax documents dubbed the “Panama Papers” prompted allegations that he and his wife used an offshore firm to hide million-dollar investments.
Britain has little say over decisions made in the European Union (EU), which is increasingly dominated by Germany, the Prime Minister of Iceland has said. Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson claimed that the UK is wielding “diminishing power” within the bloc as many
The mayor of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Saturday said he would scrap plans for a boycott of Israeli goods, a proposal which had raised outrage in Israel and elsewhere. “I will propose to the municipal council that the idea is
US reaffirms defense of Japan’s Senkaku Islands; Japan-U.S. military guidelines will include ‘collective self-defense’
U.S.-China diplomacy over South China Sea turns vitriolic; 400 die as illegal migrants flood into Italy from Libya; Illegal immigration from Mexico down sharply, but not for lack of trying
British school-children are taught to believe that global warming will be an unmitigated disaster: soaring temperatures will turn out green and pleasant land into an arid desert before it sinks beneath the waves of a rising sea. But for the
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey canceled a planned concert in Iceland because the venue did not take its meat dishes off the menu. A fan site for the singer, True to You, reports that Morrissey canceled the gig at Harpa Concert
Having lost the religious battle in Scandinavia to Christianity over 1,000 years ago, the Norse gods are making a comeback in Iceland.
