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Interior Minister Assistant Charged
Minister Also Wants “Courts And Law Enforcement” To Be Managed By Another MinisterGísli Freyr Valdórsson, an assistant to Minister of…
Virus In Imported Meat Might Alter Nation’s Behavior, Warns PM
Says Toxoplasma Infection ‘Might Be Changing The Behavior Of Whole Nations’According to Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, a virus that…
Secretary General: Iceland Crucial To NATO
NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, met with Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson yesterday in…
Ombudsman Wants Clearer Answers From Interior Minister
Parliamentary Ombudsman Tryggvi Gunnarsson is not satisfied with the response he received from Minister of the Interior Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir…
Why Iceland-Palestine?
Sveinn Rúnar Hauksson, chair of the Iceland-Palestine Association, on the conflict and the cause he defendsThe Israel-Palestine conflict has in…
News In Brief Late July
Reykjavík’s streets have seen a lot of marching in the last two weeks. An estimated 11,000 Icelanders participated in the…
Cutting Ties With Israel “Out Of The Question”
It looks very unlikely that Iceland will cut political ties with Israel, going by what the previous and current Foreign…
Petition On Israeli Government Submitted To Foreign Affairs Committee
About 6,600 Icelanders signed a petition calling for their government to end diplomatic ties with Israel in response to the…
Prime Minister Sends Letter To Netanyahu
Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has sent a strongly-worded letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the subject…
3000 People Attend Gaza “Die In”
An estimated 3000 people attended an anti-war “die in” in central Reykjavík yesterday protesting Israeli air raids on Gaza, reports Vísir. …
Best Of The News
In reviewing the past year in news, you will see certain patterns emerge: certain public figures, events and topics that…
Progressive Alternate MP Quits Party Over Mosque Issue
An alternate MP for the Progressive Party told Grapevine he is quitting the party altogether, largely due the party’s handling…
Prime Minister Wrong On Imported Meat
Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson made claims about meat from the US that were not actually true, an official from…
Giving Iceland
Back in April, Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson apparently made a blunder, when he proclaimed the opportunities ahead for Iceland,…
Icelandic Bar Life
…Through the eyes of the maternal figure behind Boston and the late SirkusSigríður “Sigga” Guðlaugsdóttir’s induction into the world of…
So What’s This City Election I Keep Hearing About?
Oh, you heard about it? It seems like a lot of people did not. Turnout was at an historic low…
Masters Of Peace And Harmony
The Progressive Party went hunting for xenophobic votesOut with the new, in with the old: Municipal elections were held in…
Nothing Progressive About It
Let’s just be honest here: the Progressive Party has, for at least the past several years, been Iceland’s xenophobic nationalist party. And…
Progressives Could Get Seat On City Council
In the wake of recent remarks made by the Progressive mayoral candidate that she would revoke a plot of land…
Bishop Of Iceland, Progressive Minister Disagree With Progressive Mayoral Candidate
A controversial statement made by a Progressive mayoral candidate about the possibility of a mosque in Iceland has prompted a…
PM Inaccurate On Coalition’s First Year
Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson penned a special article in celebration of the ruling coalition’s first year in office, but…