Iceland's Pirate Party

The legislation currently has backing from most major political parties within the country, including the Progressive Party and the Left-Greens, who are in the ruling coalition, as well as the Pirate Party, and the People's Party. If the bill goes through, Iceland will be the first European country to ban male child ...

People using a popular co-working space in Reykjavik, Iceland, have been forced to warn tourists that their office is not a 'Penis Museum'. Reykjavik's Icelandic Phallological Museum is famous. It gets thousands of visitors a year. Given so few speak the language, a lot of people confuse the phallic ...

Icelandic Office Workers Forced To Ward Off Insatiable Dick Tourists ... Office workers in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik have been forced to adhere a sign to their door informing would-be visitors that no, their little professional space isn't actually a museum dedicated to penises. ... Former Pirate Party (!

The Left-Green Movement emerged in the late 1990s, following one of the endless reshufflings of political parties in this true multiparty democracy (even Iceland's Pirate Party, one of the most robust of the world's new wave of tech-savvy political groupings, has a parliamentary presence here).

A recent piece of legislation seeks to ban male child circumcision in Iceland with a penalty of six years in jail. It's an issue that's crossed political boundaries, with politicians from the Progressive Party, Pirate Party, the Left-Greens, and the People's Party all in favour of it. If it passes, Iceland will be the first ...

In terms of party affiliation, the highest levels of support came from voters of the Pirate Party (59%), the Left-Greens (55%) and the Progressives (54%), who were the ones who ... While Icelandic doctors have been very supportive of the ban, it has come under criticism over questions of religious freedom.

Representatives of four political parties have backed the proposal: the Progressive and Left Green parties -- two of the three coalition government parties -- as well as the People's Party and the anti-establishment Pirate Party. More than 500 Icelandic doctors have also signed a petition supporting the ban, ...

The MP says to mbl.is that although circumcision of boys is not specifically mentioned in Iceland's criminal law, circumcision of girls and women is ... Iceland's Pirate Party has put forward official plans to amend a clause in Icelandic law which currently enables religious organisations to get free land to build ...

The political turmoil following the crash swept the upstart Pirate Party into Iceland's parliament, where it currently holds 10 percent of seats. Pirate Party legislator McCarthy has questioned the value of bitcoin mining for Icelandic society, saying residents should consider regulating and taxing the emerging ...

Speaking with Associated Press, Smari McCarthy of the Icelandic Pirate Party floated the idea during an interview about the country's global position as a hub for bitcoin miners. Iceland has long played home to an ecosystem of bitcoin miners, thanks to the country's access to abundant sources of ...

The new coalition quickly foundered as senior government figures were named in The Panama Papers as having offshore investments. The resulting corruption scandal saw Iceland return to the polls this past weekend. This time Piratir, to use the Pirate Party's Icelandic name, fared rather worse: it attracted ...

As reported, the no confidence proposal was submitted by the Social Democrats and the Pirate Party to parliament yesterday. ... which has made numerous deportation decisions that go against both Icelandic law and international agreements, resulting in widespread and concerted public criticism.