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Five Thousand City Employees Were Overpaid
At the end of last year, the City of Reykjavík had to correct payments to employees totalling 34 million ISK due to a system error in the calculation of the December bonus, reports Vísir. Around 4,900 city employees were overpaid. Eva Bergþóra…
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Progressives Begin Formal Talks With Social Dems, Pirates & Reform Party For Reykjavík City Council Majority
At a press conference held just moments ago, representatives of the Progressive Party, the Reform Party, the Social Democrats and the Pirate Party announced that they would now begin formal talks with one another for the formation of a new city council…
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City Hall 2022: Progressives In Reykjavík To Meet This Evening
Þórdís Lóa Þórhallsdóttir, the head of the list for the Reform Party in Reykjavík, posted on Facebook yesterday that her party will not only ally with her compatriots in the previous majority–the Social Democrats and the Pirate Party–she is also inviting the…
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Proposed Permanent Python Perturbs Politician
The Environment Agency of Iceland has granted a permit to the Reykjavík Family Park & Zoo to fly in a ball python as a new resident, MBL reports. While there is no exact timetable on when this python will make an appearance,…
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The Money Faucet: Overspending In Reykjavík City Council
In a capitalist society, budget deficits are a common part of government expenditure. Projects slated for next year go beyond the allocated funds of the current year, year after year, but this is usually not cause for alarm, so long as the…
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16 Parties Officially Running For Reykjavik City Hall This Month
A total of sixteen parties met yesterday’s deadline to hand in their official list of candidates for this month’s Reykjavík municipal elections, although one candidate was stricken from the list for not fulfilling the key requirement of living in the city itself.…
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The Immigrants Running For Reykjavik City Hall
Municipal elections tend to attract more immigrant candidates than parliamentary elections. This might be because foreigners who aren’t yet citizens can actually vote in these elections, or because we immigrants tend to feel more loyalty towards our immediate communities than the country…
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City Hall May Take Hard Swing To The Right Next Spring
Reykjavík City Hall might end up looking very different from its current form when municipal elections are held next spring. A four-party band of centre-to-left parties, which comprise the City Hall majority right now, may end up being replaced with a decidedly…
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Welcome To Theme Park 101: Impossible Prices, Citizen Flight And The Audacity Of Hope
101 Reykjavík has always been the beating cultural heart of Iceland; it is where Björk became a star, where Iceland Airwaves is held and where you go for a Bæjarins Beztu hot dog. But in recent years it has undergone dramatic changes,…
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City Councilperson Resigns
Independence Party city councilperson for Reykjavík Júlíus Vífill Ingvarsson has just announced he is resigning from his post. RÚV reports that Júlíus made this announcement during City Hall proceedings today. Sources close to the Grapevine say that replacing him will be Independence…
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City Pleads: Liberate Trash Cans From Snow
While the blanket of snow caused by the snowpocalypse is a sight to behold, this winter wonderland has become a nuisance for the city as trash builds up, reports RÚV. City Hall therefore asks all Reykjavík residents to shovel a path to…
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Hlemmur Bus Terminal To Become Food Market
From grimy bus caterpillar to artisanal food butterfly, plans to turn Hlemmur bus terminal on Laugavegur into a food market hall are set to go ahead. Bus company Strætó bs. announced yesterday that Reykjavík’s main bus terminal, Hlemmur, will be shutting down operations…
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City Hall Has Heated Meeting Over Israel Proposal
The proposal to ban products from Israel is officially dead, but not before a heated and often emotional debate took place last night in City Hall. Vísir reports that last week’s City Hall proposal to stop buying products from Israel was officially…
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Call To Review Homeless Care
Several municipal employees are criticising the current framework for handling the homeless and have called for greater assistance from the government, reports RÚV. Currently Reykjavík City covers all expenses involved in the care of the nation’s homeless and chairman of the city’s welfare committee, Björk Vilhelmsdóttir,…
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Progressive Disavows Islamophobes
Progressive city councilperson Sveinbjörg Birna Sveinbjörnsdóttir says she will not fight against a mosque in Reykjavík, and that Islamophobes who voted for her “bet on the wrong horse”. “I find this really distressing,” Sveinbjörg told Rás 2 listeners yesterday morning, DV reports.…