and Best Album at the Danish Folk Music Awards. This is just to name a few. The public institution SamVit - Faroe Islands Enterprise, which is to carry out the chosen national policy regarding trade and [...] encouraging a growing music business on the Faroe Islands«, says Elin Heinesen, Managing Director of SamVit – Faroe Islands Enterprise (FIE). FIE was the organizer behind the successful event Funky Faroe
to statistics, it has the lowest crimerate in the world. If we look at violence, the picture is the same. Natural balance Faroes is one of the very few modern places still in touch with nature. It is still [...] not only have the oldest parliament in the world, but the heart of political power is still at the same place. The Faroes has been a very remote society without much contact with the world. The Danish colonial
faroese fish industry collapsed in the sad 90ies the export to USA came to a halt and never regained the same volume as earlier. Today the trade between USA and Faroes is on a very small scale which I feel is
decisions concerning the direction of our land than we are, who actually inhabit the islands. Along the same line of reasoning we are now in a process of building up our own foreign service with four repr [...] to be any conflict of interests between exploring for oil and developing an oil industry and at the same time to look for other ways of producing energy. We need the oil, and incomes from oil can help us [...] in alternative and renewable energy. On the whole, I see good reasons to be optimistic, but at the same time careful, about possible oil findings and developments in a near future in and around the Faroe
Faroese delicacies like sheep’s head, whale blubber and skerpikjoet. Elin Heinesen, managing director of SamVit, the Faroese trade council and tourist board, says that time is ripe for marketing the Faroe Islands
while you would be free from any unwarranted prying attention from the outside world you would at the same time have all the necessary conference facilities and the most modern information and communications
aims for a social system which both: • promotes equality, well-being and reliance; and which • at the same times generates innovation, cooperation and growth. From a liberalistic market philosophy these two
two men and the environment in Reykjavik were broadcast around the world. We of course aspire to the same ambition, which is that when two such dignitaries visit our country this will assist in the promotion
municipality. We are currently expanding at Oyrareingir by Kollafjørður in the North, and right across the same fjord the longest landing quay in the country was recently finished. We have several industrial areas
to to be inspired and reminded of how much you can achieve by setting your mind to it, and at the same time it is an opportunity to shed light on what we as a small society have to offer the world. ??At
