Sentences with phrase «icelandic government»

The Icelandic government is looking into funding an open - source language database and prevent its extinction, but in the meantime maybe Siri and Alexa can hit the books.

In a scenario which played itself out in various European capitals the measures imposed by the Icelandic government in order to prop up its banking system potentially undermined the agreement's exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the English High Court as well as its governing English law provision.

In 2006, the Icelandic government stated it would no longer respect an international ban on commercial whaling; it issued permits for the commercial hunting of nine endangered fin whales and 30 minke whales.

«The continued slaughter of endangered fin whales and other cetaceans essential for sustainable marine ecosystems represents a shameful deficit in Icelandic government's regulations in the face of such blatant short - term profiteering to the detriment of the long - term future of fish stocks and the marine environment so essential to the nation,» said Paul Thompson, director of the CarbonFix Foundation.

Waitrose and Marks & Spencer protested to the Icelandic government over its decision in January 2009 to resume commercial whaling, including a hunt for endangered fin whales.

We will continue to press the Icelandic government to give up all whaling and join with the majority of nations around the world whose citizens want protections for whales wherever they swim.

Both companies wrote to the Icelandic government to urge it to reconsider the decision and to inform the government that the companies do not trade with businesses linked to the commercial killing of whales.

To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2) Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling by Iceland.

We're optimistic that the new Icelandic government may be reassessing its commercial whaling program.

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has posted Icelandic government records showing sales of whale meat, oil and meal included about 26 tons of whale meal bound for Denmark in 2009.

For the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate policy.

The Icelandic government, keen to stimulate its budding biotech industry, has embraced deCODE's plan.

Researchers, medical ethicists, and data - protection specialists in many countries lobbied the Icelandic government last year not to pass a law giving a genetics company access to the health records of the entire country (Science, 1 January, p. 13).

The Icelandic government is building a floating pen for him in Reykjavik, and after a few years there officials will decide whether the whale is fit enough to be set free.

And even if Gates (or whomever) succeeded, what could the Icelandic government do for him?

When the bank collapsed, the Icelandic government passed an emergency law splitting it into a good bank (with assets) and a bad bank (with liabilities).

Iceland's banking sector was allowed to grow to a disproportionate size relative to Iceland's GDP, including by offering foreign currency savings accounts at attractive interest rates, which implicitly put the Icelandic government, and therefore the Icelandic people, on the hook for ultimately repaying other countries when Iceland's banking system collapsed and a systemic Icelandic bank run occurred.

< 09:56 - Someone from Icelandic radio asks Brown why he previously referred to the «illegal action» of the Icelandic government, and why did he feel the urge to use terrorist legislation?

Birgitta Jonsdottir is a co-founder of the Icelandic Pirate Party and one of three Pirate Party MPs in the Icelandic government.

Banks «earned their way out of debt» by lending to global speculators who used the yen loans to convert into foreign currency and buy higher - yielding assets abroad — capped by Icelandic government bonds paying 15 %, and pocketing the arbitrage difference.

The collection of that data — the genetic sequences of 160,000 citizens, along with their medical and genealogical records — was made possible by the Icelandic government, and the storage and analysis of that data was overseen by deCode, a Reykjavík - based human genetics outfit that, since its founding in 1996, had struggled to stay afloat financially.

Not exact matches

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

Financial Times Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, Iceland's president, has created uproar with his decision to block legislation that would have repaid $ 3.9 bn ($ 5.6 bn) lost by British and Dutch savers in a failed Icelandic bank, triggering a referendum that the government is expected to lose.

So yen were borrowed to convert into dollars, euros, Icelandic kroner and Chinese renminbi to buy government bonds, private - sector bonds, stocks, currency options and other financial intermediation.

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters)- British Finance Minister Alistair Darling said on Wednesday the government would protect the desposits of British savers with the Icelandic internet bank Icesave.

While the Government and the Local Government Association have failed to provide a full list of Councils thus far identified as having deposited money in Icelandic banks The Daily Telegraph have had a pretty good stab of it this morning.

«However, the government is working with the Icelandic authorities to ensure that UK creditors, including UK local authorities who have invested in Icelandic banks, are treated fairly.»

Speaking on the sector's Financial Services Compensation Scheme bill from the bail out of Bradford and Bingley and the Icelandic banks, he said «what is notable... is that there has been no requirement for any government bailout of the building society sector; rather difficulties have been dealt with within the sector.

The failure of banks in Iceland resulted in a devaluation of the Icelandic króna and threatened the government with bankruptcy.

Our members have appeared in many of the leading cases in this area, from the swaps litigation of the 1990s, through the claims arising out the collapse of the Icelandic banking system, to current challenges to Government sanctions and legal aid cut decisions.