The EFTA Surveillance Authority has formally questioned Iceland over whether its state alcohol monopoly ÁTVR still complies with EEA rules, giving the government until April 20 to answer seven specific questions about cracks in the system's legal foundation.

Iceland's foreign minister signed a defence and security cooperation declaration with the EU in Brussels, making it the tenth non-EU state to formalise such an arrangement — a notable step for NATO's only member without a standing military.

An official investigation into the October 2024 fire at Stuðlar, an Icelandic residential care home for vulnerable individuals unable to self-evacuate, found serious deficiencies in fire safety systems, their functioning, and oversight — failures that materially endangered lives.

The Seðlabanki Íslands (Central Bank of Iceland) is reportedly considering raising its policy rate, a move that would make Iceland the only Nordic country tightening monetary policy while its neighbours ease.

Iceland's district prosecutor issued 60 charges on a single day for assaults on public officials — police, healthcare workers, a prison guard, and a child protection officer — exposing a routine of violence against frontline staff that typically results in suspended sentences of 30 to 90 days.

Vegagerðin, Iceland's road and transport administration, has rejected Icelandair's sole bid to operate scheduled flights to Ísafjörður after the airline's offer of 3.5 billion krónur came in nearly three times the state's 1.3 billion budget estimate, leaving the Westfjords' air link in limbo.

Speaking at Iceland's annual Samorku energy conference, Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir warned that any assault on the country would target power grids, undersea cables, and radar stations — not beaches.

RÚV reveals that the partnership company co-founded by Health Minister Alma Möller and her cardiologist husband received over 9 million kronur in previously undisclosed contractor payments from Akureyri Hospital in 2023, bringing total payments to roughly 47 million kronur — as parliament questions her fitness to appoint the hospital's next director.

CERT-IS handled 2,312 cybercrime cases in 2025, up from 598 in 2021, while payment fraud losses hit two billion krónur and traces of China's Salt Typhoon group were found in Icelandic network equipment configuration files.

Iceland's parliament concluded its first reading of the government's resolution on an EU membership referendum late Sunday evening, with the opposition using the session to press ministers on their personal positions ahead of the planned August 2026 vote.

Iceland's Minister of Industry has submitted a heavily revised aquaculture bill to the Althingi after nearly a thousand formal responses — overwhelmingly critical of open-sea cage farming — forced significant concessions on environmental oversight and foreign ownership rules.

An estimated 23 million cubic metres of magma have accumulated beneath Svartsengi — the highest volume since the Sundhnúkur eruption series began — while Grindavík's first grocery store since the 2023 evacuation opens its doors, its owner unfazed by the prospect of another eruption.

Iceland's national cybersecurity team CERT-IS has identified approximately 5,000 Android devices across the country carrying BADBOX malware — many of them infected before they ever left the factory — silently conscripting Icelandic households into international criminal botnets.

A left-eurosceptic group accuses Iceland's government of misleading voters ahead of the August referendum by calling EU accession an open negotiation rather than what it functionally is — an adaptation process requiring wholesale adoption of existing EU law.

Six Icelanders linked by family ties denied all charges at the South Iceland District Court in connection with a violent home invasion in Reykholt, where a man was allegedly bound, robbed of his bank credentials, and forced onto a flight under threat to his daughter's safety.

Multiple avalanches struck Iceland's Westfjords and northern regions overnight, forcing roughly 350 people into mass aid stations as rescue crews work through damaged towns.

Greenland's finance minister says Iceland's control over Greenlandic airspace — an arrangement dating to World War II — costs Nuuk up to $40 million a year, but Iceland's former aviation director warns the revenue figures ignore the massive infrastructure costs baked into the system.

Russ DeLeon, a British investor, has acquired full ownership of the long-stalled Höfða Lodge project in northern Iceland and resumed construction on the luxury hotel overlooking Eyjafjörður — raising familiar questions about who benefits when foreign money builds on Icelandic headlands.

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson opened his Centre Party council meeting with a blunt message: voting to continue EU accession talks in August means choosing a path that institutional momentum will make irreversible.

The University of Iceland's EU information website jumped from around 1,500 monthly page views to over 11,500 in February, as the government confirmed a 29 August referendum on resuming EU accession talks. A five-million-króna state grant is funding the portal's modernisation, including an AI language model to field public questions.

A massive avalanche near Selskál on the Tröllaskagi peninsula buried the only road connecting the 1,200-resident town of Siglufjörður to the rest of Iceland, sending snow across the route and into the fjord below.

Internal communications reveal Iceland's health ministry contacted nursing homes as remote as Hvammstanga seeking any available bed, only to be told staffing shortages prevent even rural facilities from opening spare capacity.

Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir used meetings with senior US defence and security officials to stress the inviolability of borders and Greenlandic self-determination — while carefully crediting NATO, not Washington, for increased surveillance in the North Atlantic.

Two government-commissioned reviews from 2014 agree that no EU accession state has ever won permanent fisheries exemptions, but neither rules it out entirely. Icelandic politicians are now citing the same documents to argue opposite positions.

Davíð Oddsson, who served as Iceland's prime minister for thirteen years and oversaw the most radical economic liberalisation in Nordic history, is buried today in Reykjavík. His legacy — privatisation, prosperity, and the 2008 banking collapse — remains bitterly contested.

Iceland's Foreign Minister returned from Washington with a clear message: US officials will not exempt the only NATO member without a standing military from demands to increase defence contributions.

Iceland's largest telecoms operator Síminn has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire the web and broadcast media properties of Sýn hf. for a reported 5.25 billion krónur, a deal that would concentrate broadband infrastructure and media content in a single company in one of the world's smallest media markets.

Iceland has formally intervened in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice — the first time the country has joined a substantive ICJ proceeding. The move follows a 2023 Althing resolution and builds on Iceland's early ratification of the UN Genocide Convention in 1949.

Iceland's 2026 capelin season is on track to generate 25–35 billion krónur for the national economy — well above initial projections — according to the managing director of one of the country's largest processing firms.

Icelandic oil companies are charging 70 krónur per litre in markup on petrol — 18 krónur above the inflation-adjusted long-term average — while passing on less than a quarter of global price decreases to consumers, according to a new analysis by trade union Viska.