Many of those billions people are simply in so called 2nd tier country and getting richer every day ( look to China for example ).

Inside the EU a country cannot trade freely with the rest of world becuase the EU commission does control all trade. The EU is a customs union. Not a free trade area.

EFTA is the free trade area. And the UK did found it in 1960s only to make the mistake and leave for then called EC in the mid 1970s. What a mistake that was.

Of couerse Greeland and Faroes can become independent and out side EU.

But Scotland is more likely to get independnce and out of UK and join EU itself.. than Faroes is to leave Danish rule and join EU on its own.

But Greenland will go for full independence and stay out of the EU very likely in next 5 years or so. And they will thrive.

Just as Iceland will continue to do.

is it vital that the Faroe Islands stay under the danish crown?

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

I think (based on complicated facts, and the way the world functions under capitalism) that independence is crucial for a healthy economy on the Faroe Islands.

In regards to safety politics. If the UK or the U.S wanted any of the nordic countries they would be able to take them. the nordic region consists of 8m people, who have never contributed on equal terms as the rest of the world when it comes to UN or other world expanding peace keeping unions.

Perhaps a new cooperative architecture with the Danish Crown is in order but, it is vital that the Faroes and Greenland be in union with Denmark. If Greenland were independent, it would be unable to defend itself from predatory bankers like Goldman Sachs and their enforcers, i.e. CIA, MI6, Mossad, and any other predatory NGO.

Please don’t get carried away with the rhetoric of independence. The United States and Britain have abandoned their mythical roles as forces for good in the world. The U.S. and Britain have been acting as predatory agents for a malicious globalist movement which features malignant global banks at its core.

Denmark appears able to fend off these financial cartels. It is in Greenland’s and the Faroes Islands’ best interest to stay under the Danish Crown as long as the Crown faithfully fulfills its role as benevolent guardian.

Because they can’t afford the annual subsidy?

If anything, Greenland has more in common with Iceland than the Faroes. Maybe Iceland should take over Greenland?? Why not?

They have roughly the same population size, but while Greenland gets 3-4 billion kroner from Denmark every year, the Faroes get only a fraction of that, around half a billion kroner.

In many ways the Faroes is like a micro-country with a thriving economy, Greenland is sadly more like a giant social security office. For Greenland to even think about governing themselves for real is more like a joke than reality.

Hopefully not. The Faroe Islands are too small to even be called a micro state.