access to signal. You pay, you watch. Simple, efficient, and oh so practical. The United States as well is well known for its practical nature and everyone knows that teamwork and practical colla­boration is [...] Born in Copenhagen, the son of a Danish Lutheran minister, he was raised in the Faroes. As one could well imagine, growing up in the Faroes Jónas was quite at home on the sea and eventually acquired a sailing [...] brought along with him a small library of some fifty volumes, which included the Bible, of course, as well as books in various languages on agriculture and navigation and, given his connection to Holland,

Arkansas at around four in the evening, but for us - myself and my friend Samal, it could just as well have been four in the morning. Having traveled for three days, through three different countries,

to develop the Faroes to a knowledge society and in this environment where the country is, at may well be a process that makes the Faroes bring solutions to the world in these areas mentioned above. Culture

larger terminal. The Faroese government acknowledges that the world is getting smaller with all the well known strands of globalisation in mind, and this situation is not least beneficial for the smallest

Apartheid era. We are naturally sorry that you have not been able to take up these invitations but well understand how the many calls on your time mean that you have to be very careful about prioritising

all necessary conditions for good opportunities in a well organised welfare state, • That responsibility between the citizen and the authority as well as solidarity is highly valued, • That rights and access [...] originates in a political ambition and it 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 [...] ns, corporations and political systems – and • with the highest fertility rate in Europe creating well-being and continuing availability on the labour market. Thus the foundation for a social economic

the center of the Faroe Islands and this is where the first settlers convened a thing, an assembly, well over 1000 years ago. Today this assembly, called Løgtingið, is the Faroese Parliament and it still

among your first words you especially stresses: COWARDS! And this is going to be REVENGED. True. I well understand that the first shock after an atrocity of such dimension may make any president overreact [...] tooth. On the other hand I don't agree that if you have been hit on one chin then to turn the other as well But you could try to find new solutions I know this sounds both naive and banal and utopical but can

but a spacious cultural and spiritual domain embracing giant nations such as the United States as well as tiny states-to-be, such as the Faroes. The challenges of the modern world make this last perspective [...] could hide the fact that Western powers are nowadays practising, partly through rendition, torture as well as violation of the principle of habeas corpus. And to take another example, a democracy certainly

are everything". I strongly agree, yet I would offer that international collaboration is central as well. Education admittedly is key and we are keenly motivated to enhance our collaboration in this area [...] No doubt there will, in time, be many spin-off ventures that will be of interest to the Faroese, as well as the US and international, business communities. Even now, the Faroese business community has s [...] environment and our willingness to adopt new technologies. We have excellent broadband coverage as well and more Internet users per capita than the United States. Admittedly, we experience more cloudy days