Iceland on track for snap election as government falls – disagreements on issues including foreign policy and asylum seekers, says Bjarni Benediktsson
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Though the Icelandic president's role is mostly ceremonial, Halla Tómasdóttir said that she would seek to raise “the right questions” and bring attention to critical health issues
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Iceland is voting to elect its seventh president on Saturday, with a tight race expected between three women
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Iceland's digital election website made it so easy to run for president that scores of people ended up throwing their hats in the ring by accident
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Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will be the country's next prime minister, replacing Katrín Jakobsdóttir who resigned from the post last week
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Icelandic PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir announced her resignation – said that she will run for president, a ceremonial post that is mostly above the daily political fray
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For the fourteenth year running, Iceland takes the top position in the Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum
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Iceland's governing parties led by Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir of Vinstrihreyfingin–grænt framboð agreed on Sunday to continue their working coalition for another term
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Iceland is voting in a general election that is expected to reflect the country's fragmented political landscape – nine parties could enter parliament
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Hungary formally lost access this week to over €200 million in grants from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein amid growing concerns about the country's democratic backsliding
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Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir talks climate change and gender equality over ice cream
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