Posted on 25 November 2011. Tags: berit, damage, Faroe Islands, hurricane, insurance, Norway, storm, weather
Widespread damage to property occurred in the Faroe Islands yesterday evening and night, as a fierce Atlantic storm raged by.
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Posted in Business, Faroe Islands, General, MBL, Norway, Society, Weather
Posted on 18 November 2011. Tags: catch, co-operation, economics, Faroe Islands, fisheries, Greenland, Iceland, quota
Greenland and the Faroe Islands have agreed on how much Greenlandic fishermen can catch in Faroese waters in 2012, and how much the Faroese fishing fleet will be able to take from Greenland's waters.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Environment, Faroe Islands, General, Greenland, Iceland, MBL, Politics
Posted on 18 November 2011. Tags: council, life, Lifestyle, nordic, statistics
The Nordic Council has released its Nordic Statistics Handbook 2011, which contains all sorts of interesting facts about life in the Nordic region over the last year.
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Posted in Culture, Denmark, Education, Faroe Islands, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, International, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Norway, Politics, Saami, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden
Posted on 07 November 2011. Tags: advertising, facebook, Iceland, internet, marketing, nordic, online
The combined Nordic consumer agencies are investigating whether advertising laws have been broken on the social networking website, Facebook.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden, Technology
Posted on 31 October 2011. Tags: democracy, Denmark, election, Faroe Islands, lögting, Politics
This weekend's election to the Faroese parliament, the Logting, saw significant gains for the centre right.
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Posted in Denmark, Faroe Islands, General, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 09 September 2011. Tags: diplomacy, Environment, Greenland, Iceland, security
The Greenlandic Prime Minister says that climate change and search & rescue co-ordinations are now the biggest national security issues facing the Arctic region -- and not traditional military issues.
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Posted in Denmark, Environment, Faroe Islands, General, Greenland, Iceland, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 27 August 2011. Tags: fashion, nordic, norræna húsið, Reykjavik, Seattle, usa
The 2011 Nordic Fashion Biennale, a six-week-long exhibition celebrating design, fashion and innovation, will kick-off on September 30 with the two-day NFB 2011 Fashion Summit in Seattle, featuring top international designers and artists.
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Posted in Art, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, International, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden, United States
Posted on 20 August 2011. Tags: dispute, EU, fishing, Iceland, IceNews, mackerel, Norway
By Alëx Elliott, IceNews editor: It has been a long time since I wrote an editorial column. They were a regular feature at the height of the banking crisis and always stimulated good debate. There are a few ongoing news stories that have been bothering me lately and today I'd like to rant about just one of them.
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Posted in Business, Environment, European Union, Faroe Islands, General, Iceland, MBL, Norway, Politics
Posted on 15 August 2011. Tags: business, Environment, faroe, gas, Iceland, Oil, Statoil
Iceland is this autumn expected to call for bids on oil and gas exploration licences in the offshore Dreki Area, north-east of the country.
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Posted in Business, Energy, Environment, Faroe Islands, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Politics, Technology, United Kingdom
Posted on 06 July 2011. Tags: constitution, Denmark, Faroe Islands, independence, Politics
The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, says that the draft of the new Faroe Islands' constitution is incompatible with Denmark's constitution and cannot co-exist with it.
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Posted in Denmark, Faroe Islands, General, MBL, Politics, Society