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So basically Copenhagen's way of keeping Faroe Islanders on Faroe Islands. Do they get along that badly?

And it's not money given to Faroe Islands, it's money given to companies much closer to home for doing cool digs beneath Faroe Islands. I believe that Denmark understands this difference very well.

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I don't follow local politics much, so I'm not 100% sure about the following. But my impression is that it's financed by loans, paid for with tolls for using the tunnels. And I think the project is being dug by Norwegians.

Denmark does pay a yearly subsidy to the Faroe Islands of ~105M USD to help with general upkeep, but that's not earmarked.

NCC who dig it are Swedish, but this may be done by a Norwegian subsidiary

You're right, found this on NCC's Norwegian website:

https://www.ncc.no/vare-prosjekter/undersjoiske-tunneler-far...

Oh, that shines a very different light on it, thanks!

There were plenty of people from the Faroe Islands and Greenland when I lived in Copenhagen a few years ago, and I never got the impression that Danes are hostile towards any of them.

The Kingdom of Denmark is trying to keep itself in one piece though, and ensuring that people in the Faroe Islands and Greenland are happy being a part of the Kingdom is probably a good way of doing just that.

Otherwise, they might just say yes when some US president attempts to buy them.

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