Day: February 10, 2006

The Icelandic Broadcasting System, RÚV, reports that the foreign minister, Geir H. Haarde, will open a new embassy in New-Dehli on February 26.

The charges filed by the National Police’s Economics Crimes unit against Baugur management will be heard in the District Court in Reykjavík on February 20 and 21.

Iceland placed 3rd on a list recently published by Forbes of the most “capital hospitable” countries.

Morgunbladid reports today on the reply of the minister of trade to a question from a member of parliament concerning how much Icelandic banks had lent to senior bank managers in the past years.

According to the Icelandic Broadcasting System, RÚV, the former chairman and current CEO of FL-Group, Hannes Smárason, was sued in the District Court of Reykjavík yesterday by Kristinn Rúnar Kjartansson.