and the fallout from volcanic eruptions forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government and call an early election. Saturday’s election is Iceland’s ...
Iceland’s new government plans to allow energy companies to begin three new power plant projects this year, while it is still ...
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson's Independence Party trailed the Social Democrats with 19.4 percent, down from the 24.4 percent it won in 2021, marking the worst result the party had ever recorded.
Like other European countries at the epicentre of the financial crisis Iceland was gripped by protests. Reform came quickly. The long-serving prime minister, Geir Haarde lost his job (his last ...
(Bloomberg) -- Iceland’s new government plans to allow ... Johann Pall Johannsson, minister of the environment, energy and climate, will propose to lawmakers approving new hydro plants with ...