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Statistics for Treasury finances for January - October 2014 are now available. Treasury finances January-October 2014

The new Minister came to the Ministry offices after the State Council meeting, whereupon she took the helm from outgoing Minister Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir and then met with Ministry staff. Curri...

The Icelandic authorities will not approve the LBI hf. winding-up committee's request for exemptions from the capital controls, submitted with a letter dated 12 June 2014. It is not agreed that the bo...

Iceland has reached an agreement in substance with the United States on the terms of a Model 1 intergovernmental agreement (IGA) to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and has co...

Iceland – All Year-round (Ísland – allt árið) is a marketing initiative that aims to even seasonality in tourism and increase profitability from the industry in Iceland. The initiative aims at a...

Iceland participated along with 77 states in the busy Air Services Negotiation Event (ICAN2014) organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), on 17 – 21 November in Bali, Indonesi...

The following is a joint press release from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Financial Supervisory Authority, and Central Bank of Iceland concerning the advisory opinion of the EFTA Court...

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson Minister for Foreign Affairs participated in the biannual Ministerial meeting of the European Free Trade Association, EFTA, in Geneva on 17 November.  The Ministers took ...

Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson met with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo, during his Japan visit 10- 13 November. The ministers discussed the successful relations of the tw...

Information regarding the 2015 fiscal budget Treasury Budget Proposal 2015 - Press release Treasury Budget Proposal 2015 information (PDF, 1,83 MB) Table 1, Treasury Operating Statement 2012-2015&#...

The Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, together with the project management team of the principal reduction actions, today announced the outcome of the government's Debt ...

The Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, together with the project management team of the principal reduction actions, today announced the outcome of the government's Debt...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January - September 2014 are now available. Treasury finances January-September 2014

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, has appointed Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson as Permanent Secretary of State, from 1 November. Einar Gunnarsson, who has served in the posit...

Annual consultations between the Coastal States on the management of the mackerel stock in the North-East Atlantic were held in London on 21-23 October 2014. The scientific advice from ICES on t...

The first meeting of the Financial Stability Council was held in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs on Wednesday, 10 September 2014. The Financial Stability Council is the authorities' offic...

An international conference on Gender Equality in the Arctic will be held in Akureyri, Iceland 30-31 October 2014. The conference will broadly focus on the living condition of women and men thr...

Iceland supports international measures which aim at defeating the terrorist organisation ISIS. Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, says that robust action is needed to end the crue...

Over 130 Honorary Consuls of Iceland from 57 countries are attending a consular conference in Reykjavik, hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland. The purpose of the conference is to st...

During his UN General Assembly address earlier this week, Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson announced the Barbershop Conference in January 2015, an initiative that Iceland has taken with Surinam...