Tag: Icelands
Iceland’s ruling coalition collapses, new elections in November
Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson announced this Sunday, October 13, the breakup of the coalition in power since November 2021 due to persistent political disagreements. New elections will be held…
Finnish fighter jets will participate in Iceland’s air surveillance next year | Policy
According to the Ministry of Defence, Finland also participates in maritime surveillance, for example in the North Atlantic. Finland will participate in Iceland’s air surveillance next year. According to the…
Therefore, there is a shortage of cucumbers in Iceland’s grocery stores
Summer means peak season for vegetables – but this is not noticeable in Iceland.There, the cucumber shelves gape empty, and the answer to why is simple: Icelanders have gone cucumber…
Iceland’s central bank keeps rates unchanged at 9.25%
(Finance) – The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Iceland decided to keep interest rates unchanged at 9.25%. Inflation has risen marginally since the last MPC meeting,…
She will be Iceland’s new president
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Former Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has admitted defeat in Iceland’s presidential election. Archive image. Photo: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP/TT Halla Tómasdóttir will be the new president…
Iceland’s volcanic eruption subsided | Foreign countries
Yesterday, lava set houses on fire in the small town of Grindavík. The volcanic eruption that started yesterday in Iceland has subsided. Lava was still coming out of the volcano…
Iceland’s prime minister has written detective stories: “Everyone writes books here”
Katrín Jakobsdóttir is Prime Minister of Iceland since 2017 and party leader of the Left Party – the Greens. Besides that, she is basically a literary scholar and has studied…
Iceland’s government gathers – prepares for possible volcanic eruption
Iceland’s government wants to draw up a plan for if there is a volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Possible scenarios will be discussed at an emergency meeting with the…
Tourism exploded Iceland’s economy into growth, but the limits of the carrying capacity of the small island and fragile nature have begun to loom
REYKJAVIK The beginning of Iceland’s tourism boom was literally explosive. A volcano that erupted from under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier spewed a dense cloud of particles into the sky, which paralyzed…
hundreds of people hiked to admire Iceland’s volcanic eruption on the very first day
This volcanic eruption is more difficult to get to than last year’s, which was visited by more than 400,000 people in six months. The volcanic eruption that started in Iceland…