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Althing
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Al·thing  (älthng, ôl-)
n.
The parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest assembly in Europe, first convened in 930.

[Old Norse althing, parliament, whole assembly : allr, all; see al-3 in Indo-European roots + thing, assembly.]

Althing [ˈælθɪŋ]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the bicameral parliament of Iceland

Althing a whole assembly, specifically, the General Assembly of Iceland.


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In a fiercely debated motion, members of the Althingi, Iceland's parliament, voted 33 to 28 with two abstentions on Thursday to start membership talks with the EU.
A total of 33 members of the 63-seat Althingi backed the governing Social Democrat party's proposition to open membership negotiations with Brussels, while 28 voted against and two abstained.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and several individual NIH institutes, as well as Hjartavernd (the Icelandic Heart Association), the Althingi (the Icelandic Parliament), and the Migraine Research Foundation.
 
 
 
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