Bill Clinton’s visit already in January. The visit was postponed just weeks before the planned event in May, but eight foreign press representatives chose to visit the islands anyway. One of the foreign [...] According to the press co-ordinator, Tórun Ellingsgaard, foreign press doesn’t just follow Bill Clinton’s tail. They have to be fed with interesting tips about possible stories. - American journalists are not [...] sell the Faroes to his editors, he needed a more solid story. And the story that got him here was the one about the Faroese professor, Bogi Hansen, who was awarded the Nordic Council Nature and Environment

and Iraq, and still come out loving the U.S. It is Clinton, though, who holds the key to their hearts for his support during the Kosovo War in 1999. Over coffee one woman put it that, “We don’t like each [...] Abby Kirkbride abby.kirkbride@gmail.com Photos: Ben Rasmussen This is one of the first lessons the Mother Continent (Europe, ed.) taught my husband and I on our month-long honeymoon trip en route to the [...] young unemployed journalists traveling in Europe for a month with only the increasingly devalued U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely

surface. On this background it is possi­ble to make predictions of what you may find deep down, but one is always taking a risk, and you will not know if you find anything, before you actually hit it with [...] recession of the early 90ies. What must be striking about the Faroese economy, seen from an outsider’s view, is that we have an extremely tiny economy in a population of just under 50,000, and a total workforce [...] is also why we are still expand­ing our degree of political independence. We are convinced that no one is better situated to plan for our own good and take decisions concerning the direction of our land

course, to the country’s Vision 2015, the hope and dream that the Faroes will become one of the most progressive nations of the world by 2015. A bit audacious some might say, but I for one am the eternal optimist [...] indomitable spirit of the Faroese bubbling and oozing about. I remember sitting in a remote farmhouse one evening enjoying the pleasant company of a farmer and his artist wife, as they graciously listened [...] example. 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

sending a signal to the rest of the world of a one-eyed parliament instead of an advanced society. Convey to them discreetly that one of the reasons you became one of the most popular Presidents ever in the [...] of course exciting in its own right if a woman was to become the very first President in the world’s strongest superpower. Even more interesting however, is how the »cocktail« Angela Merkel – Hillary R [...] threat. Mrs Angela Merkel has already shown her muscles in environmental issues, which is the world’s greatest threat today – possibly even more so than acts of terror. A Clinton is definitely better than

they’re all here in the nutrient-rich waters of the Faroe Islands. UK’s main fishing operator, Kings Angling Holidays is convinced and UK’s largest Sea Angling magazine »Sea Angler« who visited the Faroe Islands [...] fields and develop other kinds of industries. Opening up the Faroe Islands as a tourist destination is one of our goals, because the tourist industry can lead to so much more and create grounds for other industries [...] the services on offer in this country and try to inspire and develop ideas for more services. On the one hand we must develop new services and activities and, on the other hand, increase bed capacity, because

flux. It keeps disappearing: One moment it’s lost in the fog, and suddenly – there it is again in all its magnificent beauty. Like magic. Like reality and fairytale in one. In these majestic surroundings [...] Reality and Fairy–Tale in One »The Faroe Islands is easily the most moodily beautiful place I have ever been. Each island is a giant slice of elaborately tiered basalt, tilted to one side and covered in green [...] And let’s stay in the poetic corner. Danish author and jazz singer Suzanne Brøgger, who visited the islands in March this year, described her experience in a radio programme in this way: »It’s a cosmic

from day one in order to develop the current portfolio and evaluate future opportunities. The organisation has long operatio­nal experience in Norway, the North Sea and internationally. The company’s ambition

FøroyaTele, the largest telecom company in the Faroes, is about to sign a contract with one of the world’s largest oil companies British Petroleum or better known as BP. This is a five-year contract and [...] Sosialurin understands that negotiations regarding this very exciting cooperation between one of the world’s largest oil companies and the largest IT Company in the Faroes are in the final stages. Co

is still strongly rooted in the Faroe Islands. This has been an overarching principle in the Company’s strategy and it has been shown to be a strong commercial point overall. The listing of AP on the OMX [...] point in time the Company is prepared and ready to go into the third phase of its development. Phase One The idea behind the establish­ment of Atlantic Petroleum was to use the upcoming Faroese Licensing [...] First Faroese licensing round and was awarded licence number 001. Phase Two On the shoulder of phase one the second phase was planned. A Business Plan was formulated in 2001 for the time period 2001 to 2006