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Iceland Will Stand Up For Kurdish Human Rights
Iceland’s Foreign Minister has pledged the country will fight human rights abuses of Kurds and other minorities in Turkey. Stundin reports that a special meeting of Iceland’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called together by Left-Green MP Steinunn Þóra Árnadóttir, was assembled to discuss…
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Open Season — Iceland’s New Law On Foreign People Is A Mixed Bag — Also, A Squandered Opportunity
The Icelandic legislation on aliens (96/2002) has been subject to desperate and haphazard review for years. Passed with little consideration for immigration and intake of refugees, the current, sorely outdated law went on to define an inefficient institutional structure that is utterly…
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PM Rejects Notion Of Ideological Void
On Saturday, Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson rejected the notion that his government exists in an “ideological void”, and pointed out, as proof, its “clear future vision in foreign affairs”, presumably referring to its stated intention not to join the European Union.…
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Foreign Policy For Profit
Last week, the Russian government announced they would respond to Western sanctions over the situation in the Ukraine with some economic sanctions of their own—a full embargo on food imports from the EU, the US and several other Western countries. Norway, which…