A cheeky agreement in silence

Icelandic foreign ministers have long been known to sign agreements with the Americans when parliament is in recess – sometimes the day after it was sent home. This is according to historian Stefán Pálsson. “However, it is incredibly impudent for a caretaker foreign minister in the middle of an election campaign to quietly make such an agreement,” adds Stefán, referring to Guðlaug Þór Þórðarson in 2016 after the collapse of Bjarni Benediktsson’s…