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10 May 2023 /International Wellbeing and Sustainability Forum held in Reykjavík 14-15th June
The Prime Minister's Office in cooperation with the Directorate of Health and the City of Reykjavík are organizing an International Wellbeing and Sustainability Forum in Harpa in Reykjavík on the...
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09 May 2023 /Co-creating for a better future: Conference in Iceland on June 1st 2023
During Iceland's chairmanship in the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in Iceland organizes a Nordic conference in Reykjavik on June 1st 2023. The name of the con...
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08 May 2023 /Response to MAST Report on Monitoring of Whaling in 2022
In August 2022, Iceland‘s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Ms. Svandís Svavarsdóttir, issued a regulation requiring the Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) to carry out regular inspection...
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05 May 2023 /Supreme Allied Commander Europe visits Iceland
Christopher G. Cavoli, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is making a short visit to Iceland. Today he met with Minister for Foreign Affairs Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir and receive...
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05 May 2023 /Exercise Dynamic Mongoose concludes with a port visit in Reykjavík
Five ships from Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 have arrived in Reykjavík for a short port visit as they conclude their participation in the annual NATO-led Anti-Submarine Warfare exercise Dynamic...
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03 May 2023 /Joint Iceland-Sweden team wins NATO’s largest cyber defence exercise
The joint team of Sweden and Iceland won the cyber defence exercise Locked Shields which took place last month. The exercise is organized annually by NATOs Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellen...
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28 April 2023 /Updated Sovereign Sustainable Financing Framework and an Annex on Financing for Gender Equality
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has issued an updated Sovereign Sustainable Financing Framework, but the original framework was issued in September 2021. The update consists of minor adju...
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26 April 2023 /First service stop by a US Navy submarine in Icelandic territorial waters
The American nuclear-powered submarine USS San Juan visited Iceland today for a brief service stop in the waters outside of Garðskagi, southwest Iceland. The Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Thor provided...
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24 April 2023 /Exercise Dynamic Mongoose taking place in the North Atlantic
Eleven Allied nations are set to take a part in Dynamic Mongoose 2023, a large-scale Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise in the North Atlantic from April 24 to May 5. Iceland is the primary hos...
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24 April 2023 /Annual Strategic Dialogue between the US and Iceland
The annual Strategic Dialogue between Iceland and the United States took place in Washington, Friday, April 21. The security situation in the Euro-Atlantic area following Russia's war of aggres...
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18 April 2023 /Service visits of US submarines authorised
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland has informed the Government of the United States that nuclear-powered submarines of the US Navy will be authorised to make a brief service visit in Iceland ...
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29 March 2023 /Medium-term Fiscal Strategy Plan 2024-2028: to counter inflation, safeguard living standards and support growth
The government's fiscal strategy plan for the next five years lays out its strategy to utilise fiscal policy in a targeted manner to counter inflation and overheating by increasing expenditure restrai...
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28 March 2023 /Investing in Children – the Key to Prosperity
Ásmundur Einar Daðason, Minister of Education and Children in Iceland, and the Council of Europe will host a conference on March 30 on the advantages of investing in children. The event is organized a...
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28 March 2023 /Iceland hosts first ever CDENF meeting outside of Strasbourg
The Ministry of Education and Children in Iceland hosts a meeting for the Council of Europe Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child (CDENF) in Reykjavik, Iceland on March 28 and 29. The ev...
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15 March 2023 /Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs visited Ukraine and met with Volodomyr Zelensky
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister for Foreign Affairs Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir met with President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelensky in Kyiv yesterday. The situation in Ukraine, I...
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14 March 2023 /Head start for Icelandic
Icelandic was chosen as the first language, other than English, to feature in the development phase of the latest version of OpenAI's GPT-4 project, which was officially announced today. Icelan...
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11 March 2023Fitch Affirms Iceland at ‘A’; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Iceland´s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘A’ with a Stable Outlook. According to Fitch, Iceland’s ‘A’ rating is underpinned by its very high incom...
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27 February 2023 /Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council
Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed the beginning of the 52nd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on behalf of Iceland today. ...
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24 February 2023 /Brutal aggression against Ukraine – One Year On
Today, the 24th of February, marks one year since the launch of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. On this occasion, the international community has come together to show solidarit...
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09 January 2023 /Iceland ratifies the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education
On December 5, 2022, Iceland and Andorra ratified the UNESCO Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, thus becoming the 19th and ...