On 1 August, toll prices at the Klaksvík and Vágar undersea tunnels will be reduced by 20% for discount ticket holders. A 20-trip discount ticket for passenger cars will now cost DKK 400. The price for one single ticket through the tunnels is DKK 100.
Faroese cannabis activists are pushing ahead with a plan to form a new political party aiming to legalise the cannabis plant – primarily for medical use. They have so far collected some 250 of the 800 signatures required to run for election.
Due to fog several flights from Vagar Airport were cancelled or delayed yesterday. Amongst the unlucky passengers, who were stuck at Vagar Airport yesterday, were OFK Titograd Podgorica’s players and staff.
If everything goes according to plan, tourists will soon be charged for traveling in rural areas in the Faroe Islands. A proposal for a regulatory framework for travel in rural areas will be presented to Parliament this autumn.
In Denmark, children over the age of 1 who live in low-income, heavily Muslim immigrant communities that the government classifies as “ghettos” will soon be subject to mandatory training in “Danish values”.
The new technology is expected to result in innovative solutions and opportunities in sectors such as transport, welfare, the environment, agriculture and energy. Business and industry also have much to gain from effective use of 5G.
In the past three years, Atlantic Airways’ helicopters have spent 46 hours rescuing injured foreigners, stated Høgni Hoydal, the Minister of Fisheries in the Faroe Islands, in a reply to MP Kári P. Højgaard.
The Nordic and Baltic countries have taken one more step towards strengthening their collaboration on digitalization. Together with other Nordic countries, the Faroe Islands have signed a joint ministerial resolution regarding artificial intelligence (AI).
The news of the Faroe Islands seeking a trade deal with Russia on fish exports has made headlines in The Moscow Times. The boom in exports to Russia began in 2013, when the European Union in turn imposed sanctions on the Faroe Islands in a dispute over fishing quotas.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the prime minister of Denmark, Aksel Vilhelmsson Johannesen, the prime minister of the Faroe Islands, and Kim Kielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, will meet at 9.30 a.m. by Leynavatn, a lake on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands, and at 11.30 a.m. they will hold a joint press conference.