It’s official – Iceland is emerging from recession, with growth up in the last quarter, and inflation and interest rates down. What lessons can we learn from our North Atlantic neighbours, and can ...

Greece is not Iceland; the differences between the two countries extend well beyond the average temperature and contrasting attitudes to herring. But watching the Greek crisis grind toward its ...

The Blue Lagoon, Iceland's largest tourist destination, is a 100-degree melting pot. On a cold March day, as driving rain blows wisps of vapor from the nearby geothermal power plant, a group of ...

IRELAND COULD learn valuable lessons from Iceland’s response to its banking collapse, according to a report published yesterday by the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts (PAC). Its chairman Fine Gael ...

Early in 2008, Anne Sibert and I were asked by the Icelandic bank Landsbanki (now in receivership) to write a paper on the causes of the financial problems faced by Iceland and its banks, and on the ...

Eva Joly writes: In the wake of the failure of the Icelandic banks Messrs Brown, Barroso and Strauss-Kahn prove that they have understood nothing. From G8 to G20, many heads of state and government ...

For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus's finance minister said capital controls would probably last "a matter of weeks". Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island ...

While Iceland may seem far removed from Asia, the economic crisis it is facing offers lessons to all nations on what they should avoid so as not to end up in the same boat. At the end of last year, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Netherlands news every morning. Ever since it became one of the first and biggest victims of the global financial crisis in 2008, one ...

just extended its own controls indefinitely. When Iceland first announced those surprise plans after growth quicker than many had expected. Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member ...