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 country profile Iceland to end capital ... It only emerged on Thursday that it was Benedikt Sveinsson, Prime Minister Benediktsson's father, but the prime minister is said to have been ...

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 ...

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.

Overtourism has put pressure on Iceland's natural resources, Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir told Bloomberg in September. 2023 was a strong year for tourism in Iceland. Nearly 800,000 ...