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http://hamodia.com
April 29, 2018
A bill that would have banned bris milah and other forms of religious circumcision in Iceland will not be voted on by its parliament following a negative ... Regarding the proposal in Denmark, he added that despite winning significant popular support, the country's major political parties had pledged toÃÂ ...
Inhabitat
April 27, 2018
“She is the party leader who can best unite voters from the left and right,” said Eva H. Onnudottir, a political scientist at the University of Iceland, according to the New York Times. “Because this coalition includes parties from the left to the right, their work will be more about managing the system instead ofÃÂ ...
Earth911.com
April 26, 2018
“A lot has happened in Icelandic politics, and people really don't trust Icelandic politicians. I can't blame them,” new ... Three government parties with differing political stances will make up this coalition: the Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Left-Green Movement. Cooperation among suchÃÂ ...
Inhabitat
April 23, 2018
“She is the party leader who can best unite voters from the left and right,” said Eva H. Onnudottir, a political scientist at the University of Iceland, according to the New York Times. “Because this coalition includes parties from the left to the right, their work will be more about managing the system instead ofÃÂ ...
Philly.com
April 21, 2018
Tourism, along with fishing, farming, and the production of aluminum and Icelandic wool, is one of the biggest businesses in Iceland. ... There are nine political parties – the country is led by an elected prime minister — and 23 counties, 60 post offices, and 4 colleges, along with elves and trolls that manyÃÂ ...
Reykjavk Grapevine
April 20, 2018
She has used her talent and boundless energy to create projects ranging from poetry, activism, media reform and politics. ... “One of the reasons why I left the Pirate Party is it was increasingly feeling like a political party, and increasingly less a movement,” Birgitta says. “It's nobody's fault, really, it just sort ofÃÂ ...
Iceland Monitor
April 14, 2018
Two of the political parties forming the current coalition government, the conservative Independence Party and the centrist Progressive Party, have ... that Icelandic energy matters are simply none of the EU's business as Finance Minister Benediktsson stated in a speech in Iceland's parliament last month.
Reykjavk Grapevine
April 13, 2018
New GRECO Report Evaluates Iceland's Response Against Corruption In Politics ... About three years later, after the implementation of a new code of conduct for politicians and an anti-corruption steering group, GRECO still thinks that Icelandic governments have not taken enough responsibility to make aÃÂ ...
SW News Media
April 12, 2018
The biggest political parties are the center-right Independence Party and the Left-Green Movement, and the Progressive Party. These three parties form ... Iceland's official written and spoken language is Icelandic, which is a North Germanic language that descended from the Old Norse. Icelandic is the onlyÃÂ ...
New Internationalist
December 31, 1999
The emerging 'real democracy' movement was fervent about being neither left nor right, seeing all existing political parties as part of the system that had .... a key figure in Iceland's 'pots and pans' revolution, co-founded the Pirate Party in Iceland (nearly becoming prime minister) and yet, left party politicsÃÂ ...
New Zealand Herald
January 5, 2018
The unprecedented day of protest brought the nation to a standstill and paved the way for future gender equality wins. An all-female political party was founded soon after and by 1999, over one-third of Icelandic MPs were women. Following last year's national election, Iceland became the "most equalÃÂ ...
PRI
December 19, 2017
Icelandic media call you the country's most trusted politician. We should point out that you're following scandals that have forced out two previous prime ministers, and now you've got a coalition of party members, centrist progressives and conservatives. What is the political mood in Iceland right now?
EUobserver
December 11, 2017
The then leftist government of Iceland applied for EU membership in 2009 after the international financial crisis hit the country. Icelandic politicians calling for EU membership saw the crisis and the consequent despair of many of the voters as an opportunity to get Iceland into the EU. This was, howeverÃÂ ...
ELLE India
December 31, 1999
It makes sense that Iceland is the first nation to take this step to closing its pay gap. The new legislation has been strongly supported by both political parties in Iceland's parliament, where nearly 50 percent of the lawmakers are women, including the new Prime Minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir. For the past nineÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Updated | Iceland has become the first country in the world to make it illegal for women to get paid less than men. New legislation was passed ... The legislation was backed by both political parties in the country's parliament, where women make up 50 percent of its lawmakers. In 2016, women in the countryÃÂ ...
Reykjavk Grapevine
December 31, 1999
The mass text messages that the People's Party and the Centre Party sent to thousands of Icelanders before the elections were illegal, the Post and Telecom Administration in Iceland (PFS) has ruled. Many Icelanders were puzzled and annoyed to have received unwanted text messages from these twoÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 11, 2017
A worldwide movement among younger voters to create “millennial political parties” is taking root in the U.S., where the “youth” bloc is now the biggest and is ready to toss older politicians engaged in partisan warfare out on their ears. New signs emerged in a Harvard University Institute of Politics poll thatÃÂ ...
EUobserver
December 11, 2017
The then leftist government of Iceland applied for EU membership in 2009 after the international financial crisis hit the country. Icelandic politicians calling for EU membership saw the crisis and the consequent despair of many of the voters as an opportunity to get Iceland into the EU. This was, howeverÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 1, 2017
Iceland's Left-Green party is leading a new coalition government from across the political spectrum after weeks of coalition negotiations bore fruit this ... The Independence Party, which won 25.2 per cent of the vote, has dominated almost every Icelandic government since the second world war and will runÃÂ ...
IcelandReview
November 25, 2017
... and consists of nearly a thousand women who have been affiliated with politics in Iceland over the years. The group has officially declared that men must take responsibility and that all political parties ought to do everything in their power to combat sexual violence and discrimination in Icelandic politics.
Iceland Monitor
November 8, 2017
This has been confirmed by tax authorities in Iceland. ... Papers scandal last year, has left the party and is working on forming a new political ...
Iceland Monitor
November 7, 2017
The general elections in Iceland on 28 October resulted in a record eight political parties entering the Icelandic parliament, Althingi. The parties ...
Iceland Monitor
November 6, 2017
The four party coalition would have had 32 MPs in Iceland's 63 member ... Icelandic women are not happy to see that the country's last elections led to fewer ... Icelanders wake up to a different political landscape after Saturday's general elections. ... Iceland 2017 Elections: Government parties lose majority.
BBC News
November 1, 2017
... based entirely on traditional male-centric terms," Soley told Icelandic TV. ... Iceland has a proud history of women's political advocacy, dating back to ... Party is having none of this, and blames the parties themselves. ... Politics needs to get better for women and feminism in Iceland," she told Iceland TV.
Iceland Monitor
October 30, 2017
The President of Iceland met earlier today with leaders of all parties that ... lost seats but remains Iceland's largest political party with 16 seats.
New York Times
October 29, 2017
Iceland's governing conservative Independence Party held off a stiff ... in nearly every government since Iceland cut its last political ties to Denmark in 1944. ... pushing the anti-establishment Icelandic Pirate Party down to sixth place with six seats. ... Eight parties have entered the Althing in this election.
New York Times
October 28, 2017
Political parties that had once seemed like fresh alternatives a year ago have lost their luster. “There is still a lot of distrust in politics,” said Ottarr Proppe, the health ... Iceland's Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Makes Strong Gains OCT. ... He has campaigned under the banner of an Icelandic horse, ...
Arab News
October 26, 2017
... of the ruling conservative Independance Party, Bjarni Benediktsson, gives a speech ... In Iceland, a law that allows a murderer to become a lawyer or a ... too long poisoned politics on the small North Atlantic island of 335,000 people. ... Icelandic prison sentences longer than four months bar convicts from ...
POLITICO.eu
October 26, 2017
It's a measure of the new unpredictability of Icelandic politics that ... He said his party is filling a gap created by the establishment parties.
Pulse Nigeria
October 25, 2017
"There seems to be a growing instability in Icelandic politics," Jonsson said ... Party ... would not get good support," University of Iceland political ...
Observer
October 25, 2017
It is only in politics where a binary option is the norm—and we are ... It will be the first German three-party coalition government in ... Similarly, last October saw Iceland's parliamentary election split across seven parties for the first time. ... We are seeing signs of this political fragmentation in the United States ...
The Straits Times
October 25, 2017
"There seems to be a growing instability in Icelandic politics," Jonsson said. ... Party...would not get good support," University of Iceland political ...
TorrentFreak
October 24, 2017
In the political arena, the Czech Pirate Party booked several ... Not just that, they also became the third largest political party in the country, where more than 30 parties ... in the national parliament, following Sweden, Germany, and Iceland, ... us a great mandate to transform the dynamics of Czech politics.
Reykjav
October 20, 2017
The title means “God Bless Iceland,” and is a reference to a .... The characters the actors play will be very familiar to Icelandic ... I've never thought of politics in terms of parties. ... “To make a long story short, I don't have a political alliance to any one party, but I enjoy the political landscape immensely.
Reykjav
October 20, 2017
All that changed when the Icelandic government collapsed in 2009. ... More small parties have been forming, which is not in itself a bad thing at all, but ... We saw a new party form just a few months before elections and ... At this point, it seemed as though Icelanders were leaning away from party politics and ...
Iceland Monitor
October 19, 2017
The survey showed that supporters of the Independence Party are more likely to agree with the injunction compared to other political parties.
Iceland Magazine (blog)
October 18, 2017
The nationalistic right-wing populist party The Icelandic National Front has ... Before getting on the ballot political parties fielding candidates in ...
Iceland Magazine
October 13, 2017
Best political ad for the upcoming parliamentary elections has been found ... of Icelandic politics: The parties take the waffle making very seriously, ... Since the original Icelandic might be challenging to most of our readers, we at Iceland ... Icelandic political traditions Portly progres party politicians, stacks of ...
Iceland Monitor
October 11, 2017
The Indepedence Party is just under with 21.1 % of votes. ... Both the Left Green Movement lose votes to other parties from the previous MMR ... PM and former leader of the Progressive Party is preparing to sue three Icelandic ... The Left Green Movement is the largest political party in Iceland acccording to ...
Iceland Monitor
October 10, 2017
When Iceland´s fish meal factories switched from oil to electricity ... former leader of the Progressive Party is preparing to sue three Icelandic media ... The Left Green Movement is the largest political party in Iceland ... The parties are equal with 23 percent each of votes if the election were to take place now.
Iceland Monitor
October 7, 2017
Icelandic PM Benediktsson sold funds just before the economic crash ... Benediktsson is the leader of Iceland's Independence Party. ... it was “not appropriate” to have both major business and political interests. ... The parties are equal with 23 percent each of votes if the election were to take place now.
Iceland Magazine
October 2, 2017
Analysis: Latest polls confirm Left Greens are largest party in lead-up to snap elections ... Party as the largest political party in Iceland, a position the party has ... and controversial political figures in recent Icelandic history Photo/Anton Brink ... seats in parliament, two new political parties seem more secure.
Iceland Monitor
September 23, 2017
The Left Green Movement is the largest political party in Iceland ... and former leader of the Progressive Party is preparing to sue three Icelandic ...
EUROPP
December 31, 1999
At the end of November, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the conviction of former Icelandic prime minister Geir Haarde over his handling ... Even members of the opposition parties believe it was a mistake, unnecessarily polarising political debates, leaving a mark on Iceland's political cultureÃÂ ...
Reykjavk Grapevine
December 31, 1999
“Victim blaming is a huge step that we have to overcome in politics and in society. No one wants to be the victim but you do want to be seen as a strong individual by saying this behaviour is not right.” While prominent men and political parties have largely remained quiet on the issue in Iceland, what hasÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
December 31, 1999
ICELAND'S two surviving pro-EU parties have today abandoned their ... The leaders of both the remaining europhile movements in the Icelandic parliament, who ... parties, the Social Democratic Alliance and the Restoration Party, have ... eight parties join Reykjavik's parliament, political leaders have been ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Iceland's president has asked the leader of the Left-Green Movement, ... Benediktsson's Independence party – which has dominated Icelandic politics for ... anti-establishment parties, fragmenting the political landscape and ...
Iceland Monitor
September 23, 2017
Latest ÷ Culture & Living ÷ Politics & Society ÷ Nature & Travel ÷ Eat & Drink ... The Left Green Movement is the largest political party in Iceland ... The parties are equal with 23 percent each of votes if the election were to ... Notorious Neo Nazi website The Daily Stormer has set up an Icelandic site via ISNIC.
Reykjavk Grapevine
September 22, 2017
These parties ranged fairly evenly from the right to the left, with a handful of ... First of all, the Independence Party won the greatest share of seats—21 ... been at the forefront of the movement to revise Iceland's constitution— an idea ... main selling point was that it represented changing how politics is done.
Iceland Monitor
September 15, 2017
... is bound to meet with the President of Iceland today, says professor of politics ... Bergmann says that this is a rather serious blow for the party, which ... Notorious Neo Nazi website The Daily Stormer has set up an Icelandic site via ISNIC. ... parties in Parliament to respond to the appeal made by Iceland'sÃÂ ...