Victory by eurosceptic parties in Iceland's elections has put a question mark over its EU accession process. With counting well under way on Sunday (28 April), the centre-right Independence party and the centrist ...

The European Commission will next Friday (3 May) unveil its latest forecast for economic growth and employment in EU countries. A number of member states - chief among them France and Spain - are struggling to live up ...

Iceland's EU-sceptic opposition groups are facing off with the island-nation's pro-EU government ahead of a general election on Saturday (27 April). Polls indicate voters are likely to unseat the ruling Social Democrats ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry will be in Brussels on Monday (22 April) for his first visit to the EU capital since taking up his post earlier this year. He will meet EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso to ...

Iceland on Monday (15 April) became the first European country to sign a free trade agreement with China after six years of negotiations. A joint-statement notes the two sides want “to enhance their exchange and ...

On the night of 6 October 2008, Thorfinnur Omarsson got a phone call. He had just quit his job at an Icelandic TV station and was looking forward to a "quiet time" as he was about to go back to study. It did not turn ...

Icelandic taxpayers are not liable to finance compensation of an estimated 350,000 British and Dutch citizens who lost their savings in the wake of the collapse of the country's banking sector in 2008, following a ...

Iceland's government has suspended negotiations to join the EU ahead of parliamentary elections in April that could see a eurosceptic government elected with a mandate to halt membership talks. The government said in a ...

Iceland's coalition government risks splitting up over how to handle the country's EU bid and the euro crisis. Foreign minister Ossur Skarphedinsson, from the Social Democratic Alliance party, told national radio on ...

Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Siguardardottir has said the tiny Nordic country faces a choice between using the Canadian dollar or the euro. "The choice is between surrendering the sovereignty of Iceland in monetary ...

Iceland's former Prime Minister Geir Haarde on Monday (5 March) became the world's first leader to be put on trial on charges of negligence over the 2008 financial crisis. Haarde, who was a premier from 2006 to 2009, is ...