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Iceland opened a new embassy today in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, at...

1 grudnia 2022, w obchodzonym na Islandii Dniu Suwerenności, nastąpiło oficjalne otwarcie naszej placówki dyplomatycznej. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, Minister Spraw Zagranicznych Islandii w...

Act No 82-2019 on the registration of beneficial owners_ENS.pdf

Disclaimer: This section of the site details available translations on legislation relating to the Government Offices in Iceland. In the event of any discrepancies between the translations and the or...

Act on Auditors and Auditing no. 94/2019.

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution tabled by Iceland and Germany to set up an international independent fact-finding mission to investigate ongoing human rights violat...

Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, hosted a workshop earlier this week where attendees discussed opportunities for improve...

Oslo, Norway, 23 November 2022 Today, representatives of the Northern Group – comprising Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the...

The Nordic Ministers of Defence and representatives met in Oslo today to discuss the grave security situation in Europe, the war in Ukraine, Nordic defence cooperation and the incoming Finnish and Swe...

Memorandum on the HF Fund’s issues and the Icelandic State’s guarantee

Defence Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) met in Edinburgh on 9-10 November. During the Ministerial, the security situation in Europe, support to Ukraine and collective approaches to se...

Of that generation which taught itself how to code and program, Torfi Frans Ólafsson was in the core group around the Icelandic gaming company CCP, creator of Eve Online.  Torfi is now based in L...

Today the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs met with Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, who is in Iceland for the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders. The Minister and the Exec...

Iceland took formally over the Presidency of the Council of Europe from Ireland today at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg. This is the third time Iceland assumes the Presidency o...

On Friday, 11 November, the Immigration Council will host an open presentation on the Development Fund for Immigration Issues, and the application process, this year’s focus points and the Fund’s...

The fourth Summit in the history of the Council of Europe will be held in Iceland on May 16-17, 2023. The Prime Minister of Iceland and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland today announced...

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has presented the programme for the Icelandic Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers for 2023. The Prime Minister presented the one-year Presidency programme ...

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Immigration Council invite applications for grants from the Development Fund for Immigration Issues. The Fund's purpose is to enhance research and de...

The Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate has issued an english translation of its energy report — The State and Challenges of Energy Affairs with reference to the government‘s climate...

Report:The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs on the HF Fund