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4 unusual facts about Steingrímur J. Sigfússon


Steingrímur

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon (born 1955), Icelandic politician and Iceland's Minister of Finance, Fisheries and Agriculture

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon

On 16 January 2006, Steingrímur was injured in a car accident not far from Blönduós, Iceland: he has now recovered.

Since September 2006, when US forces left Naval Air Station Keflavik, he has strongly opposed any possible development of an Icelandic army seeing the country's need for armed forces as practically non-existent.

Steingrímur was born in Gunnarsstaðir, a large sheep farm between Garður and Þórshöfn in the Þistilfjörður region of northeast Iceland (Svalbarðshreppur municipality).



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