Sentences with phrase «icelandic parliament»

Part of the team who advised the ALTHINGI (the Icelandic Parliament) and its Budget Committee on a variety of matters arising from the loan agreements entered into between the depositors and investors guarantee scheme of Iceland and the commissioners of her majesties treasury.

But Landsbanki was deprived of that argument on 15 April 2009 when the Icelandic parliament repealed the section of its insolvency legislation which had provided for the automatic stay of proceedings.

Eliasson notes that the «Icelandic parliament is called the Althing, meaning: a space for all things.»

This gracious 1930s hotel is located in the beaufiful square of Austurvollur, in the heart of Reykjavik and across from Althingi, the Icelandic parliament and the cathedral.

Overlooking Austurvöllur Square - the location of the Icelandic parliament and the city's cathedral — this 1930...

In December 1998, the Icelandic parliament approved the creation of the national health database (Science, 1 January 1999, p. 13), and last month the health ministry put one company, called deCODE, in charge — a move that engendered heated opposition.

Images from the sea of citizens protesting against their Prime Minister in front of the Icelandic parliament went viral and became a sign of Iceland's invested civil society and its dissatisfaction with members of the political elite.

As time passed, support in the Icelandic Parliament for constitutional reform weakened.

Although circumcision is widely done for religious and cultural reasons, a bill in the Icelandic parliament calls for someone to imprisoned for up to six years if the procedure is not done solely for medical reasons.

Not exact matches

She is an Icelandic law maker, and the video is her in Parliament, they were having a discussion in Parliament in Iceland, and they were discussing something that she needed to participate in.

Last April, news surfaced that Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the then prime minister, and his wife owned Wintris, an off - shore company that held debt from failed Icelandic banks — a fact he failed to disclose upon entering parliament in 2009.

Danish / Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will speak about his The Parliament of Reality, a new, permanent outdoor installation sited near the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

On behalf of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF), representing Icelandic and Faroese fisherman, 2007 Goldman Prize winner Orri Vigfusson wrote a strongly worded letter to all Members of Scottish Parliament accusing the country of contributing to a catastrophic decline in north Atlantic wild salmon populations.