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 | | Three years later, the party was renamed the Liberal Left and in the 1971 elections, it drew 9% of the votes and 5 of the 60 seats in the Althingi. | | | The Liberal Party was formed in 1998 and first contested the 1999 elections; it won four percent of the vote and two seats in the Althingi. | | | Of the four Icelandic Prime Ministers since 1963 who were not members of the Independence Party, three were Progressives. |
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http://www.janda.org/ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/2-ScandinaviaBenelux/22-Iceland/Iceland63-00.htm
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| | The American-Scandinavian Foundation |
| | Hafstein, judge of the Supreme Court of Iceland, Ásthór Magnússon, a self-made millionaire, whose fortune was of an undisclosed origin, and Grímsson. | | | He was elected to the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, in 1978 and in 1980 became leader of the party's faction in the Althing. | | | In a thinly veiled attack on Grímsson, who in his campaign said the presidency should be used to push lceland's interests abroad to put the country on the map, the prime minister implied he was aspiring for the double role of traveling salesman and ambassador. |
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| | The EU's relations with Iceland - Overview |
| | Iceland participates in the Council of Europe (Presidency from May to November 1999) and therefore also in the European Court of Human Rights. | | | The PM and the Cabinet are formally appointed by the President but he has little to no influence on the negotiations leading to the formation of a coalition Government and cannot influence who gets a seat in the Cabinet. | | | For the first time in the history of the republic, President Grimsson decided in summer of 2004 to exercise his constitutional right to refuse to sign a bill passed by Althingi. |
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| | U.S. Commercial Service Iceland: Background Note on Iceland |
| | The constitution, written in 1874, was revised in 1903, and a minister for Icelandic affairs, residing in Reykjavik, was made responsible to the Althingi. | | | Iceland remained independent until 1262, when it entered into a treaty establishing a union with the Norwegian monarchy. | | | The president, elected to a 4-year term, has limited powers. |
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| | Iceland - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| | Iceland currently has the presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers and will assume the presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in 2005. | | | The Althing is made up of 63 members directly elected by proportional representation for four year terms. | | | The Government will also take steps to promote more active international cooperation following a recent announcement of Iceland’s candidacy for a seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2009-2010 with elections taking place in 2008. |
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http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/iceland/iceland_brief.html
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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles |
| | The Speaker of the Althingi is chosen by his or her peers to serve a one-year term. | | | The Prime Minister and his cabinet (currently 11 Ministers) are elected members of the Althingi and exercise executive power in the name of the President, who is himself elected for four years by universal adult suffrage. | | | Iceland became an independent republic on 17 June 1944. |
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http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019233901475
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| | GENERAL ELECTIONS IN ICELAND |
| | Indeed although the two main political movements are running neck and neck, Ingibjörg Solrun Gisladottir of the Alliance Party the main opposition party, is ahead of David Oddsson as candidate for the post of Prime Minister in all of the opinion polls. | | | Differences have emerged recently about the European Union between the leader of the Independence Party and Halldor Asgrimsson, Foreign Affairs Minister and leader of the Progress Party. | | | The President of the Republic is elected every four years during a single round election by direct universal suffrage. |
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http://www.robert-schuman.org/anglais/oee/islande
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| | He sat on the board of the Progressive Party's Youth Federation in the years 1966-1973 and was on the executive board of the Progressive Party from 1971-1973. | | | He served three times as an alternate member representing Reykjavik in the years 1984 and 1985 and four times, representing Reykjanes, in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990. | | | He was a professor at the University of Iceland, served as Member of Althingi, the parliament, was Minister of Finance 1988 to 1991 and served as chairman of the People's Alliance Party. |
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| | On the same day, the WEU Council of Ministers held an extraordinary meeting with states of Central Europe, after which a declaration was issued on their mutual relations. | | | As regards the number of representatives from associate member states which should be allowed to participate in the Assembly's activities, reference should be made to the size of the parliamentary delegations from Iceland, Norway and Turkey to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, i.e. | | | As a consequence, representatives of associate member states can be granted the right to participate and vote in committee meetings and to participate in the plenary sessions of the Assembly with the right to vote on all matters except the Annual Report of the High Contracting Parties of the modified Brussels Treaty. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/a-weu/document/1360polc.war
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| | Iceland -- Review of Children's Rights The International Save the Children Alliance |
| | Many of the new laws reinforce the principle of non-discrimination that is contained within the Icelandic Constitution. | | | The Icelandic government became a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)on 26 January 1990 and it ratified the CRC on 28 October. | | | Icelandic adoption law was amended further in May2000 in respect of co-habiting homosexual couples, making it possible for children of one of the partners to be step-adopted by the other partner. |
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| | News from the High North Alliance |
| | In a legal analysis by Switzerland, it is argued that Iceland’s re-entry to the IWC with a reservation on the whaling ban is “in conformity with international law”. | | | On the other hand, a legal analysis by Switzerland concludes that Iceland’s re-entry with a reservation is in full conformity with international law. | | | A comment by an anti-whaling delegate today in the corridors at the IWC-meeting seems to summarise the controversy: “Iceland’s re-entry to the IWC is legally acceptable, but politically unacceptable”. |
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http://www.highnorth.no/news/pfriend.asp?which=273
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| | Iceland |
| | In this context allow me also to underline the important and historical decision of the North Atlantic Alliance to invoke article 5 of the Washington Treaty. | | | As this is also the first time Iceland takes the floor after the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September, I would like to express the heartfelt sympathies of the Government and people of Iceland to the Governnment and people of the United States. | | | Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations |
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http://www.un.org/terrorism/statements/icelandE.html
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| | Iceland |
| | It was occupied by British and US forces during WWII and voted for complete independence in the referendum of 1944. | | | The church still had no property so could not pay priests, and sleifr's farm was used as the bishopric which may have influenced the election of his son, Gizurr, as his successor. | | | Iceland joined NATO and the Council of Europe in 1949 and the Nordic Council in 1953. |
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http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Europe-Scandinavia/Iceland/History.htm
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| | EU Related News From Iceland: May 2005 |
| | Björn Bjarnason, Minister of Justice (Independence Party), said this new information was according to what the members of the special parliamentary committe on European affairs he chairs had realised during their work. | | | The new chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, was intended by the party to become a Prime Minister after the elections in 2003. | | | Lastly, the Social Democratic Alliance held a mail election in the end of the year 2002 among its members where they were asked if starting membership negotiations with the EU at some point in the future should be the policy of the party or not. |
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http://eunews.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_eunews_archive.html
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| | Governments on the WWW: Iceland |
| | Embassy of Iceland in Washington, United States of America | | | Icelandic Tourist Board in New York, United States of America | | | Alþýðuflokkurinn - Jafnaðarmannaflokkur Íslands [People's Party - Social Democratic Party of Iceland] {Member of: Samfylkingin} |
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http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/is.html
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| | Elections in Iceland |
| | The Alþingi (Great Diet) has 63 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. | | | Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 1 and on civil rights with a 1, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free). | | | Freedom House considers Iceland to be a free country. |
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| | ALLIANCE - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Alliance : THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info] | | | Alliance : Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info] | | | noun: the act of forming an alliance or confederation |
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http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=ALLIANCE
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| | The Atheist Alliance Web Center |
| | 09.15.05 - The Atheist Alliance International celebrates U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton's decision, which prohibits school districts from coercing children to recite the religious oath... | | | The Atheist Alliance Inc. (AAI) is a democratic association of independent, autonomous atheist societies. | | | Not according to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Jacoby, who argues that it is America's secularist "freethinkers" who formed the bedrock upon which our nation was built. |
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| | Birth & Midwifery in Iceland |
| | She has three children, two of whom were born at home. | | | She works for the Icelandic Midwifery Association, negotiating for higher wages and better benefits for midwives in Iceland who work for the government (all the hospitals are government run). | | | Some of the following sites may not be in English; an online translator may be useful. |
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| | Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Alliance is a name of several political parties: | | | This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Alliance is also the name of a number of places |
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| | Although losing heavily in the 1978 elections, the Progressives were not only in the new left of center government but headed it with Olafur Johannesson as prime minister. | | | Following the outbreak of War in Korea, the United States again negotiated responsibility for the defense of Iceland, which became one of the charter members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. | | | ICELAND: The Party System in 1950-1956 and 1957-1962 |
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http://www.janda.org/ICPP/ICPP1980/Book/PART2/2-ScandinaviaBenelux/22-Iceland/Iceland50-62.htm
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| | Icelandic Links / The University of Iowa / Iowa City, IA |
| | Head of State: His Excellency, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, was invested on the 1st of August 1996. | | | He is a former finance minister and was a professor of political science at the University of Iceland and a member of the Icelandic parliament before he was elected president. | | | International Organizations: Iceland is a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations and its agencies, NATO, The Council of Europe, OECD, EFTA and the Nordic Council. |
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| | Encyclopedia topic: Alliance (Iceland) |
| | The Alliance (Samfylkingin) is a political party (An organization to gain political power) in Iceland (An island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944). | | | This was a deliberate attempt to unify the entire centre-left of Icelandic politics into one party to become a balance against the right wing (Those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged) Independence Party (additional info and facts about Independence Party). | | | This attempt failed as a group of Al |
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| | 1263 Icelanders recognized the authority of the king of Norway after a brief civil war. | | | 1944 Iceland became an independent republic under President Sveinn Björnsson. | | | 1397 Norway and Iceland were united with Denmark and Sweden under a single monarch. |
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| | European integration (from Iceland) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Iceland entered the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1970, in the period of the Independence and Social Democratic coalition, against the votes of the People's Alliance; the Progressives abstained from voting. | | | Monetary unit: Icelandic króna, with (Oct. 7, 1994) a free rate of 67.83 krónur to U.S. $1 (107.89 krónur = £ 1 sterling). | | | Monetary unit: Icelandic króna, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of 69.25 krónur to U.S. $1 (104.92 krónur = £ 1 sterling). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-10103?tocId=10103
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| | The McLaughlin Group Discussion Board |
| | Nobody is saying that if Iceland were attacked, the United States and the other NATO members, as their treaty obligations are, wouldn't defend them. | | | Under the terms of a 1951 defense pact between Iceland and the United States, the Air Force and Navy stationed troops in Iceland to guard the North Atlantic seaways from Soviet submarines. | | | We have an alliance which is there to defend them. |
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| | Sample Fulbright Proposed Statement of Study or Research - Study Proposals - National Fellowships - Student Academic ... |
| | As a result of changes in international women's issues and in Iceland's political climate during the early 1980s, Icelanders elected the first woman president and the first woman mayor of the capital city, Reykjavik. | | | The Women's Alliance was active from 1983-1999 as an independent political party, and aside from the national "Women's Day Off" strike of the 1975, and election of Vigdis Finnbogadottir in 1980, American scholars have all but ignored the actions of Icelandic feminists. | | | Despite these advances, the WA began to lose popular support as other parties, namely the Independence and Progressive Parties, also included women on their slates. |
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| | Statement by Foreign Minister Halldór Ásgrímsson |
| | An increasing number of states, including rogue states, have acquired or are in the process of acquiring technology which enables them to threaten the security of Alliance members states through the use of nuclear devices or chemical and bacteriological agents. | | | This should be the foundation for various non-Article 5 missions. | | | Iceland welcomes increasing consultations and cooperation between the Alliance and the WEU, on the basis of the decisions taken in Berlin and Brussels, and will support efforts towards their implementation before the Washington Summit. |
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| | The EFTA Secretariat: Resolutions |
| | Rapporteurs: Sören Wibe (PSE, Sweden) and Vilhjálmur Egilsson (Independence Party, Iceland), 16 March 1999 | | | Rapporteurs: Kristinn H. Gunnarsson (Progressive Party, Iceland) and Toine Manders (ELDR, the Netherlands), 24-25 May 2000 | | | Rapporteurs: Marjo Matikainen-Kallström (EPP-ED, Finland) and Vilhjálmur Egilsson (Independence Party, Iceland), 27-28 November 2000 |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Iceland |
| | election results: percent of vote by party - Independence Party 33.7%, Social Democratic Alliance 31.0%, Progressive Party 17.7%, Left-Green Alliance 8.8%, Liberal Party 7.4%; seats by party - Independence Party 22, Social Democratic Alliance 20, Progressive Party 12, Left-Green Alliance 5, Liberal Party 4 | | | This page was last updated on 1 November, 2005 | | | Settled by Norwegian and Celtic (Scottish and Irish) immigrants during the late 9th and 10th centuries A.D., Iceland boasts the world's oldest functioning legislative assembly, the Althing, established in 930. |
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| | The renewal of Iceland’s whaling also threatens possible sanctions from the United States government that could cut off fish imports from Iceland. | | | Iceland’s most important markets for fish exports are the US, UK and Germany where the public are strongly opposed to commercial whaling. | | | Iceland’s lethal research proposal was rejected by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in July 2003. |
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| | CBS - The Amazing Race |
| | As the four Teams sped along the rural highway on a chilly early morning, the second and third planes landed, carrying the remaining Teams. | | | Gus commented, "It's disconcerting that we thought we were ahead and now we're behind." | | | Hayden & Aaron took an early lead in the second pack of seven Teams, while alliance mates Gus & Hera and Avi & Joe fell into last place. |
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| | About the high north alliance |
| | The head of Ocean Harvest, an organisation working for the sustainable use of whales, Jon Gunnarsson, said it was extremely positive that Iceland’s “pause” in whaling had come to an end. | | | The Government of Iceland today announced the resumption of whaling. | | | Rune Frovik, the secretary of the High North Alliance, said: “There will probably be an outcry by animal rights activists against Iceland, saying that this move will tarnish Iceland’s image abroad, that Icelandic trade will suffer and that tourists will stop visiting the country. |
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| | Iceland Women's Organisations |
| | This information was last updated on October 28, 2003. | | | The Women's Alliance wants to change society and put respect for life and shared responsibility as its first priorities. | | | The aim of the Women's Alliance is to make women's perspectives, experience, and culture a no less important policy making force in the society than that of men. |
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| | Horse Touring in Iceland |
| | Icelandic horses have been an important part of life on this Sub-Arctic island since Vikings settled Iceland over one thousand years ago.And not long thereafter horse touring started in Iceland. | | | And, since governing themselves required gathering together annually in a field in Southern Iceland, with regional meetings closer to home, riding long distances quickly became part of their culture. | | | Check out the Iceland Adventure website to see some of the many possibilities |
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| | Global Whale Alliance |
| | This website includes useful and detailed background information on whaling and the GWA campaign. | | | Membership of the GWA is open to individuals and groups alike. | | | It also includes ideas on how you can help the whales right now. |
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| | Iceland Air - FF Partners? |
| | I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be. | | | Is Iceland Air partners with a Star Alliance or One World member? | | | The Iceland Air website is sooooooooooooooooooooo slow, search of this forum did not yeild the answer to: |
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| | FSA, FileMaker Databases, FileMaker Solutions Alliance - FileMaker |
| | All the benefits of the Associate level plus a grant for education software. | | | In addition, you may be invited to preview and test select pre-release software. | | | Membership in the FileMaker Solutions Alliance (FSA) gives you access to "members only" technical information, Developer Resource Central, and the FSA Talk web forum. |
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| | FileMaker Software Deployment, Business Software Solution - FileMaker |
| | FileMaker Solution Alliance members have been hard at work creating and deploying commercial solutions in industries from healthcare to education, from small businesses to large companies. | | | Don’t reinvent the wheel, you may find a solution that has already been built and ready to go. | | | Read the full article in FileMaker Advisor Magazine. |
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| | The economy is heavily dependent on the fishing industry, which provides nearly 75% of export earnings. | | | In the absence of other natural resources, Iceland's economy is vulnerable to changing world fish prices. | | | The economic improvements resulting from climbing fish prices in 1990 and a noninflationary labor agreement probably will be reversed by tighter fish quotas and a delay in the construction of an aluminum smelting plant. |
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| | ALS MND Alliance - Iceland |
| | In 1998, produced a documentary film for Icelandic TV about the disease featuring people with MND. |
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