The Faroese welfare state has great challenges ahead. Globalisation offers possibilities but also strains the economic sphere whilst growing demands from citizens and the labour market create outcomes [...] flexible welfare services of high standards. This is why Føroya Landsstýri - the Faroese Government - has implemented a long-term strategy process of the title ‘Vision 2015’. In this vision-plan which amongst [...] concerns. The principle of sector responsibility and cooperation amongst all authorities in question has to be adapted and improved. Another aim for this subject matter is that the working life of families

skjótt gjørdist víðagitin og gjørdi grime-sjangruna galdandi á altjóða pallinum. Haðani bleiv sangurin ?Has It Come To This?? eitt stórt hitt. Í 2004 kom ?A Grand Don´t Come For Free? út, og í 2006 ?The Hardest

Åkesson Filholm, Bibliotekar & forfatter, Virkelyst 45, 9800 Hjørring, Danmark. e-mail: filholmlange@has.dk

economic development, particularly in the lessons gleaned in the North Atlantic Islands. Programme which has involved a range of small island societies on both sides of the Atlantic. The orthodoxies of conventional

strong recruitments, including the record-high 1999 year class, but has declined since. Recruitment of the year classes from 2003 onwards has beeb well below average...” - Hetta brotið sigur í stuttum, at ICES

The New Nordic Food movement has not only brought international acclaim to our restaurants but also fostered greater respect for every link in the food production chain. It has inspired consumers to take

Scotland’s beautiful capital. I know I speak for my fellow Faroe Islanders when I say that Edinburgh has aways felt very much like a home away from home. I am also extremely honored to be joined here at the [...] in Edinburgh seems such an obvious choice, that I am surprised this is actually the first time it has been done. So let me thank our Representation in London for taking the initiative to gather us in Scotland [...] fly equally amongst them”. And that is what the whole story and the long struggle for our own flag has been all about: To become an equal part of the world. Taking our own responsibilities in the world

at Føroyar reint politiskt mugu ansa eftir ikki at fara solo: “Mr. Jacobsen, the Bakkafrost CEO, has said the Russian embargo allowed his company to build up a new customer base and to demand higher

inhabited approximately 1200 years ago, various forms of “løgting” our equivalvent to a Parliament has exisited in the Islands. The underlying parliamentarian principles were an integrated part of how the

Åkesson Filholm, Bibliotekar & forfatter, Virkelyst 45, 9800 Hjørring, Danmark. e-mail: filholmlange@has.dk Myndatekstur: Bjarni Åkesson Filholm í Hjørring savnar nú tilfar um Norsku Løvu, sum forlisti á