The Nordic Regions and the European Union (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series)
Contributors: Soren Zibrandt Von Dosenrode-Lynge (Editor); Henrik Halkier (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780754638209
Subjects: EU & European institutions; Political economy; Political structure & processes; Politics/International Relations; International - Economics; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; EU (European Union); Northern Europe, Scandinavia; Scandinavia; European Union; International Relations - General
First sentence: Seen from the outside, the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden may look relatively alike; they are all small centralized states without a federal tradition; all are very stable democracies with a tradition of minority and or coalition governments; three of them are monarchies, one talks of a 'Nordic welfare state model'; they have been co-operating for decades in the Nordic Council; and when any of the three that are members of the European Union (EU) - have held the rotating EU Presidency, they have all (more or less explicitly) referred to aspirations of supporting the emergence of a 'Nordic dimension" in the Union.