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  • Socialist Party Founder Casts Doubts On Infrastructure Minister’s Housing Bill

    Socialist Party Founder Casts Doubts On Infrastructure Minister’s Housing Bill

    Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Minister of Infrastructure and chairman of the Progressive Party, presented a bill yesterday which aims to improve housing security and the legal position of tenants. Vísir reports on Gunnar Smári Egilsson, the founder of the Socialist Party in Iceland,…

  • Hello! I Must Be Going!

    Hello! I Must Be Going!

    To forge a synthesis: Last week, as evident in what follows, citizens of the volcano-plagued republic seem to have mainly wondered which things should be allowed entrance into their country and which should rather be kept out: should meat-products from elsewhere be…

  • County-Party to be Founded

    County-Party to be Founded

    Once over one percent of the Icelandic population had joined the County-party’s Facebook page, it opened its own website, at fylkisflokkurinn.is, where people are invited to register as founding members. The one and only goal on the County-party’s agenda is for Iceland…

  • Wants To Make Iceland “Norway’s 20th County”

    Wants To Make Iceland “Norway’s 20th County”

    A group of Icelanders are aiming to have the country brought under the administration of the Norwegian government as “Norway’s 20th county”. The group in question, Fylkisflokkurin (“The County Party”), already has just over 1,200 members at the time of this writing.…