the economic sphere whilst growing demands from citizens and the labour market create outcomes of apt and flexible welfare services of high standards. This is why Føroya Landsstýri - the Faroese Government [...] of industry, research, innovation and globalisation, the very foundation is the development of the Faroese welfare society. This is why we for the first time with Vision 2015 have made strategic comprehensive [...] generates innovation, cooperation and growth. From a liberalistic market philosophy these two dimensions may seem antagonistic to one another. Yet, this is exactly what our welfare project attempts – namely

disparate from my own. It is this diversity which has been my greatest teacher: By living, working, and laughing with humans that are different from me, I have learned that my way of doing things is not always [...] girl asked me if I didn’t think it was to far away to go. I had told her with great confidence that it was only a plane ticket away. That is not true. America is much further away than that. To come here [...] best way. Diversity is hard, but I it is crucial for growth. I am still Faroese, and I will always stick to Faroese values. But now I understand that even we can learn something from the global community:

get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: “I don’t think I could live there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate pretty high over there? Oh, but [...] become completely demystified. This is not a dream, but real life – and I can’t do anything but love it. Rather than being intimidating, the size of the country is what makes it so full of opportunities [...] shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been

which is worth reciting once again. It has been confirmed, that an active hydrocarbon producing system is present in the Faroe subsoil. Although this is an important confirmation, oil exploration is a far [...] payment, which is a fee the license holders have to pay for the licensed area, increases as the years pass. This is also an incentive for the companies not to drag their feet with this work. It is also very [...] administration be on par with the workload, so it can ensure the work is conducted in a sensible manner – both from a public viewpoint and from the viewpoint of the license holders. We must continually remind

essentially non-human persons. And that is why it is my sincere conviction that the killing of a whale, the killing of a dolphin, the killing of a pilot whale is – the moral equivalent of murder! These [...] really knows for sure how many there really are. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) states that the species is data deficient. In other words, no one knows just how many long-finned pilot [...] products from these industrial nations, and therefore, share in the responsibility for the high mercury and other heavy metal pollutants in the sea. The reality is that our oceans are dying from overfishing

experience. The Faroe Islands is a country which is – and is not. It is in constant flux. It keeps disappearing: One moment it’s lost in the fog, and suddenly – there it is again in all its magnificent [...] country is pierced with tunnels through mountains and under the sea, leaving 85 % of the people less than an hour away from each other. It is also worth mentioning that 45 % of the power consumption is generated [...] and the human element remains the most important element. This is interesting because everything is about people and how we interact. And it is crucial that we use our human resources and the creative potential

exploration in areas such as the Faroes. This is because modern exploration is heavily reliant on seismic information, which in turn is obtained by measuring echoes from artificial sound sources generated at the [...] size used for exploration. As a result, the equipment required for this type of survey is far from standard, and, from a practical point of view, much more difficult to handle. Notwithstanding the challenges [...] disturbed by loud music from noisy neighbours, you might like to think of BLAST, and how understanding why the music sounds the way it does is helping discover new oil fields. It is just another form of rock

least abroad. It is no big secret however, that both patience and professionalism is required if a contract is to be established with a large oil company. The beau racy is immense and it is all important [...] oilfields already connected to the SheFar-cable. There is, and there will be an ever increasing requirement from the oil companies for tele­communi­cations, which is not being met today. For Faroe tele­ [...] Sosialurin in its Monday edition. The contract is to link two of the producing oilfields west of Shetland, Schiehallion and Clair into the SheFar-cable, which is currently being laid between Shetland and the

slaughter begins…… When a whale is dead, a large iron hook is driven into its head and a rope is thrown ashore, so that onlookers can drag the body on to the quay…. From now on it is hard work for the whalingmen [...] area…… He allows 24 houres from time of this announcement for the meat to be cut and carried away……. To the Faroeman, whaling is not only a necessary means of procuring food, it is also an adventure, a sport [...] concern. Dear Sir. Please stop your disturbing our standar of living in the Faroe Islands as far as whale hunting is concerned. In olden dayes fishing and hunting whales in Faroese sea territory and fiords

This, of course, is how we like to see ourselves and how we should like, hopefully, to introduce ourselves to two illustrious guests, from Sweden and the United States. Hanus Kamban is a Faroese short-story [...] should like other nations to learn from our experience with regard to this crucial area: This is the faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth again From bitter searching of the heart. To play [...] indeed. The spectacle of leaders from some countries in the Northern hemisphere rushing to grab as much as they can from the polar ice-cream, or what lies beneath it, is hardly edifying. In this situation