closer than others. It is estimated that around 170 Faroese women left with British men after the war. We don’t know exactly how many of these fortunate young men were Scottish, or how many of these couples [...] perhaps I should call them “fixed links”. This is how I like to think about our national flag – as our political “fixed link” to the rest of the world. It is a symbol of our nationhood and national identity [...] Islands, our Flag Day is one of the most tangible and enduring legacies of the Second World War. It embodies our close historical and geo-political ties with Britain. Merkið, as our flag is known in Faroese

can be seen on clear nights from the Scottish mainland and is generated from waste gases produced as crude oil delivered by seabed pipeline is processed at the terminal. North Sea oil abruptly arrested [...] oil era, and one often overlooked, is the way it restored confidence in the people of Orkney,« he said. »Until the 1970s, people across the islands were wondering how long they could hang on and when they'd [...] economy by paying people big salaries they in turn spent on local goods and services. Under new management determined to cut costs to keep the ageing plant viable, the story is different today and the workforce

course, have to have effective strategies. This is a very small country and our budgets are equally small – so we must know how to get attention in a way that is not too costly. We have to rely heavily on editorial [...] do the Faroe Islands have as a travel destination? The fact that our country is a small archipelago in the middle of the big ocean in the periphery of western society makes us quite unique and special. [...] rather than the south. Maybe it is because people feel safer travelling north than south these days. And since the northern countries have seen far less of mass tourism, there is more unspoiled territory to

in Klaksvik. After a week of marriage, we left my home in rural America, a place of big highways, big sky and a big family, to travel across the Balkans, a land of young coun­tries, local cheese and small [...] to talk politics. “It is clear to us, based on Iraq, that President Bush is mentally handicapped,” they told us earnestly as we visited and watched the sun set over the city. It is not a bad point, but [...] can now tell Ben the price of something in Faroese so long as it is a number below 20. Bush in Greece After a few days of beaches and big meals we grew restless, and have since spent the last two weeks

campaign also shows how you are calling for your new colleagues to be frozen out of the Faroese labor market. There is no offer of a membership in any of your unions. I think this is highly inappropriate [...] opinion the ad is repulsive. In the text, you try to make it sound like you are doing the foreigners a favor by providing some basic information about the labor market. However, what is blatantly obvious [...] now have started with full page ads in English with the sarcastic subject "Welcome, foreign workers" is completely incorrectly addressed. It has been addressed directly to the foreigners, who have received

Oil Experience Hans J. Marter Shetland is ready for the Faroese oil industry to take off and is confident that both island groups will benefit hugely once oil is discovered in the Faroese sector. Already [...] simple look at a map of the North East Atlantic reveals how close the infrastructure, which is being developed in the North and West of Shetland, is located to the prospective oil province on the other site [...] the whole region is already benefiting from increased activity. »The harbour has recently been very, very busy with oil related ships. Our income this year is well up, and much of that is thanks to oil-related

other Faroe licenses. The company is also making its presence felt in Greenland. Exploration activity It is hardly an understatement to say that the Norwegian StatoilHydro is the most active oil company in [...] Rúni M. Hansen, the StatoilHydro CEO in the Faroes, what we can expect now third Faroe round is pending: -“It is too early to say yet, if we will participate in a third round. We are in the process of looking [...] of money in the company’s exploration of the Faroe area. He will not however disclose how large the actual amount is, but that we are taking of hundreds of millions there can be little doubt. Estimates

the Agip and Foroya Kolvetni (FK) partnership. This is a particularly important time for FK in that, though it is largely owned by Faroese, the company is expected to float on the London Stock Exchange early [...] exploration wells drilled, the success rate achieved in the first |Faroes campaign is smack on the global average. The trick now is to multiply that success several times over during the next two to three years [...] projects and guarantee the islands a place among the world?s oil and gas nations. Quite how this will be achieved is a question that will occupy many minds this winter as oil company geologists and others

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