No. 52727. European Union and Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands)

This article looks at the perplexing encounter between territorial autonomies and international organizations by exploring the legal-institutional frameworks for accommodating Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands within the Nordic Council/Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden) and the European Union (eu). In Norden an attempt has been made to translate the very core of autonomy, namely constitutionally protected legislative power, into a legal-institutional framework for multi-level governance. The small number of autonomies and the scope and scale of Norden allows for a one-size-fits-all solution. The encounter between autonomies and an international organization is not only more challenging in the case of the eu, it is also broader in scale and in scope. Despite the eu’s individually and often densely regulated relationships with octs and sui generis arrangements, dependent territories remain to some extent uncharted territories in the context of the eu.

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The Faroe Islands: Options for Independence

Island Studies Journal ◽

10.24043/isj.195 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 223-238

Author(s):

Maria Ackrén

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

New Zealand ◽

Future Development ◽

Political Development ◽

Public Support ◽

Free Association ◽

Faroe Islands ◽

The European Union ◽

European Union Level ◽

Central Level

The Faroe Islands are currently at a crossroads in their constitutional status. Discussions concerning changes in the current constitutional status are ongoing and several analyses about possible trajectories of future development are being proposed. Argued in a context of Faroese nationalism, this article tries to assess these trajectories in the future jurisdictional and political development of the Faroe Islands in terms of three possible scenarios: independence or full sovereignty (as is Iceland); a freely associated statehood (as are Niue and the Cook Islands in relation to New Zealand); or a confederation, probably involving changes at both the central level of the Danish state and the European Union level. This article argues that the most likely future development is that of a state in free association with Denmark. Meanwhile, island politics can change very quickly and the traditional cleavages in Faroese politics are liable to changing degrees of public support.

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Denmark

The International Protection of Adults ◽

10.1093/9780198727255.003.0042 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Claire van Overdijk ◽

Susanne Borch

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Legal System ◽

Civil Law ◽

Judicial System ◽

Faroe Islands ◽

The European Union ◽

Legal Principles ◽

Constitutional Monarchy

Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, consisting of Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. There is no single unified judicial system, and only Denmark proper is a member of the European Union. The Danish legal system adheres to the civil law tradition. Legal principles are organized into a number of codes, many of which were created through a collaborative Scandinavian effort.

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