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Having been tasked by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in October last year to produce a report on the assessment of the status of accession negotiations between Iceland and the European Union and developments within the EU, the Institute of Economic Studies at the University of Iceland has now delivered its findings. In the Institute‘s report the main emphasis is on the period since the summer of 2009, when Iceland applied to become a candidate for EU membership, and it focuses on legal, instutitional and economic developments in the European Union.
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Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has now announced that the next licensing round will take place in the first quarter of this year. This time companies will tender an offer for extraction of natural resources located north – East of Norwegian continental shelf, 73°N latitude.
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Arctic sea ice extent remained lower than average in January, and just within two standard deviations of the long-term average.
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The Arctic Winter games will take place 15 – 22 of March 2014 in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.
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Today, 13th of February 2013, the Ambassador of Canada to Iceland, Mr Stewart Wheeler held the meeting at the University of Akureyri, northern Iceland. The Canadian representative updated the Icelandic – Arctic network on current Canada´s Arctic Council (AC) chairmanship issues and initiatives.
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UArctic member the University of Washington has approved a new minor degree program in Arctic Studies through their Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Oceanography, and College of the Environment.
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Last week, the Icelandic Parliament passed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China. The Icelandic Althing consisted of 61 members from whom 56 voted in favour of the Agreement, 2 against and 3 members abstained.
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InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship - 2014 Call for Proposals
The InBev-Baillet Latour Fund and the International Polar Foundation (IPF) would like to announce the opening of the 2014 Call for Proposals for the InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship.
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The Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Fulbright Commission have signed an agreement to set up a Fulbright scholar grant in Arctic Studies. Through this agreement the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will fund US scholars to teach and conduct research in Arctic issues at Icelandic universities over the next three years.
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Northern (Arctic) Federal University and Presidential Library named after Boris Yeltsin organize an international webinar "The Day of the Arctic in the Presidential Library" on February, 28, 2014 from 11.00 to 12.30 (Moscow time).
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New shipping rules are soon to be agreed for the Arctic,where summer sea ice has shrunk by about two-thirds over three decades, opening a new ocean with vast natural resources.
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Norway and Canada have appealed a WTO ruling that supported an EU ban on the import and sale of seal products.