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Árni Páll Árnason: "a working life for all"

What kind of labour market do we want? What do we expect from companies? What are our expectations for the work place? Árni Páll Árnason feels these are all questions that deserve deep probing. His quest is to put an end to people being pushed out of working life at society's cost.
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Árni Páll Árnason

Became Minister for Social Affairs and Social Security in May 2009, heads the justice committee and is a member of the education and culture committees

Elected to the Allting (parliament) for Samfylkingin - the Social Democratic Alliance - in May 2007

Headed Iceland's delegation to the Nordic Council 2007 to 2009, also deputy leader for the foreign policy committee, trade committee and health committee 

Árni Páll Árnason is 43 and married with three children

He is educated Master of Law from the University of Iceland in 1991, and studied EU law at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium, between 1991 and 1992. He taught EU law at the University or Reykjavik between 2004 and 2009

He worked as a lawyer and diplomat prior to his election to the Allting

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