Nordic Council of Ministers
The Nordic Council of Ministers , founded in 1971 and based in Copenhagen , is an intergovernmental forum for Nordic-state cooperation. Members are Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden and the autonomous regions of Faroe , Greenland and Åland .
The Nordic Council of Ministers has been a member of AEBR with observer status since the 1980s.
The inter-parliamentary forum is the Nordic Council . Together with this it forms the system of Nordic cooperation .
Organs and bodies
The activities of the Council of Ministers are coordinated by the Nordic Cooperation Ministers. These are usually co- heads of the foreign ministries, as in the case of the Udenrigsministeriet . The bodies of the Council of Ministers are the bi-monthly Council of Ministers for Nordic Cooperation, whose unanimous decisions are binding on the governments. The Council of Ministers includes standing committees and special councils (for example for social and cultural policy), which are composed of the relevant ministers.
The Council of Ministers consists of several individual Councils of Ministers . The Nordic Council of Ministers has a secretariat in Copenhagen in Nordens Hus , Ved Stranden 18.
The institutions of the Council of Ministers include the Nordic Industrial Fund , the Environmental Fund for Eastern European Countries established in 1989 and the Nordic Investment Bank founded in Helsinki in 1976 .
Tasks, finances
The Council of Ministers is responsible for regional policy and cross-border cooperation. As part of its regional policy, the Nordic Council of Ministers provides support to the nine Scandinavian cross-border regions. The Nordic Regional Policy Committee of Senior Officials has intensified cross-border regional policy since the 1990s. Between 1999 and 2002 the Nordic Council of Ministers dealt intensively with border problems and presented possible solutions for the Scandinavian governments.
The Council of Ministers receives draft laws drawn up by the Nordic Council to harmonize and harmonize Nordic legislation. This then decides about it. The national governments have no obligation to implement the requirements, but overall a high level of harmonization of Scandinavian legislation has been achieved.
The activities of the Nordic Council of Ministers are co-financed by the five Nordic countries. The contribution of each country is determined by a distribution plan, which takes into account the share of the respective country in the collective gross national product. The total budget of the Council of Ministers in 2007 was almost 110 million euros.
Border regions
- Skärgård Archipelago ,
- Øresund ,
- Kvarken north calottes ,
- ARKO ,
- Østfold-Bohuslän / Dalsland,
- Mid Nordic ,
- Nordic Atlantic,
- North Calotte
aims
The overall aim of the Nordic Council of Ministers is to reduce problems at one or more national borders within a region. Project funding is provided for this. Since the late 1970s, several Nordic border regions have received project funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Since 2002 it has supported the development of the cross-border network in the Baltic states and north-western Russia .
Nordic Freedom of Movement Forum
In 2007 the Nordic Freedom of Movement Forum was established. The forum submits annual reports to the Nordic Prime Ministers to promote freedom of movement across borders. The range of topics includes tax and social systems, pensions, qualifications, telephone costs, rules for pensionable income. The forum's secretariat is based in the offices of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen.
E-government
The Nordic Council of Ministers runs an information service, Hello North, which contains comprehensive information on health insurance, pension, tax, unemployment benefits and grants for educational and employment opportunities. (www.hallonorden.org) A portal on taxes in the Nordic countries is (www.nordsiketax.net). In 1997 the Nordic Council of Ministers founded “ Nordregio ”, a European center for research, education and documentation on spatial development. (www.nordregio.se)
Web links
- https://www.aebr.eu/de/aktivitaeten/nordischer_ministerrat.php
- wirtschaftslexikon24.com/d/nordischer-ministerrat/nordischer-ministerrat.htm