Nordek

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Nordek (in Swedish ) or Nordøk (in Danish and Norwegian ) is the name for an economic cooperation between the Nordic countries planned in the 1950s and 1960s . The abbreviation Nordek or Nordøk stands for Nordic Economic Community .

The idea for a Nordic customs union (between Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) first came up in July 1947. The commission appointed advised against it in 1950. In July 1958, the Nordic Council's Economic Cooperation Committee recommended the creation of a common Nordic market, but such considerations were soon abandoned in favor of EFTA , which was founded in 1960 . In 1968 the Danish State Minister Hilmar Baunsgaard launched the idea of ​​founding an economic community within the Nordic region as an alternative to the European Economic Community at the time . The Nordek negotiations finally began in April 1968 and were concluded in March 1970 with a text of the treaty that included Malmö in Skåne as the seat of the future economic community. The negotiations had already been preceded by very successful cooperation between the Nordic countries in the GATT negotiations . The Nordek negotiations failed in February 1970, however, because Finland withdrew from the almost completed Nordek negotiations, because the Soviet Union resisted an impending ratification of Finland , but also because the Nordek initiative was increasingly driven by the Nordic neighbors' considerations about a possible EEC Accession were overshadowed. After the failure of Nordek, Denmark and Norway (together with the United Kingdom ) started negotiations to join the EC. Nevertheless, as a result of the failed Nordek negotiations, some deepening of Nordic cooperation was achieved, such as the establishment of the Nordic Council of Ministers or the establishment of a Nordic Investment Bank.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Nordek negotiations Jan Stampehl: "Is Finland a Nordic country?" The Nordek process 1968–70 as a case study
  2. ^ Agilolf Keßelring: The North Atlantic Alliance and Finland 1949-1961 . Oldenbourg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58804-0 , pp. 285 .
  3. ↑ Ralf Laumer and a .: From the end of neutrality: Swedish security policy after 1989 . Tectum, 1997, ISBN 3-89608-236-1 , p. 41 .
  4. ^ Agilolf Keßelring: The North Atlantic Alliance and Finland 1949-1961 . Oldenbourg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58804-0 , pp. 284 .
  5. ↑ Michael Gehler and Rolf Steininger: The neutrals and European integration 1945-1995 . Böhlau, 2000, ISBN 3-205-99090-0 , p. 244 .
  6. ↑ Ralf Laumer (inter alia): From the end of neutrality: Swedish security policy after 1989 . Tectum, 1997, ISBN 3-89608-236-1 , p. 41 .