"In retrospect, there are some obvious questions an Icelander living through the past five years might have asked himself. For example: Why should Iceland suddenly be so seemingly essential to global finance? Or: Why do giant countries that invented modern banking suddenly need Icelandic banks to stand between their depositors and their borrowers - to decide who gets capital and who does not? And ...

A new study commissioned by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry shows economic links to the EU have a “huge democratic deficit”, paving the way for a reshuffling of Norway’s agreements through the European Economic Area (EEA) at a time fellow member Iceland is holding EU accession talks. More »

Iceland has opened its doors to Bulgarian and Romanian workers, giving them the same rights of free movement and employment that other EU citizens have in the European Economic Area. More »

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A referendum ? On the diktats from out Brussels masters ? Not allowed, impossible, pointless, its the wrong time - oh hold on you can do it after all. All that's required is for the politicians to be more frightened of their people than their EU masters. Food for thought. Greece joins Iceland in demanding the opportunity to be sovereign.

Local Authorities who lost money with the Icelandic banks include Kent county council with £50m; Nottingham city council, £42m; Norfolk county council, £32.5m; Dorset county council, and Hertfordshire county council, both £28m. Fifteen police forces and numerous charities also lost their investments in Iceland.

RICHARD Lochhead, the Scottish fisheries minister, yesterday condemned the failure of the European Union to impose immediate sanctions on Iceland and the Faroes in a bid to br

FISHERIES minister Richard Lochhead will today make a fresh call for the European Union to impose sanctions on Iceland and the Faroe Islands in a bid to break the long-standi

It’s not the volcanic eruption in Iceland that has grounded flights in northern Europe, but an obsession with worst-case scenarios.

IAN Gatt, the chief executive of the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen's Association, yesterday told the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels that further s