Foreign relations of the Faroe Islands

This means that the free movement of goods, people, capital and services and other directives by the EU do not apply between it and the Faroe Islands.

[6] The boycott, which started on 28 August 2013, banned Faroese vessels carrying herring or mackerel from all EU ports, including Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

[8] The Islands reached a fisheries agreement with the Soviet Union in the 1970s (one of the first western countries to do so during the Cold War), and Russia has remained a major export market in the post-Soviet era.

[9] The tensions between the EU and Russia following the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War did not affect this trade, and in 2015 the Islands opened a diplomatic mission in Moscow, and signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union in 2018.

[16] Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the UK and the Faroe Islands signed a Free Trade Agreement on 31 January 2019.

[18] The Foreign Minister Jenis av Rana met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Copenhagen on 22 July 2020.