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- ○■ The Nordic nations togeth er would have economic and political clout - if they could overcome their fierce independent spiritsToday the leaders of the five Nordic states are meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a Nordic federal state. Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway and Sweden - reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Shetland and Orkney - collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some sort of a supra-national Nordic state regularly crops up. Now this old idea has resurfaced in a book the Swedish history professor Gunnar Wetterberg submitted to the Nordic Council in Reykjavik today. Wetterberg argues that together the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the three micro territories the Faroe Islands and Greenland and Aland), will be stronger and more stable and prosperous than they are ON their own. After Sweden and Finland joined Denmark in the European Union in 1995, leaving Norway and Iceland in the European Free Trade Association (Efta) (and within the European Economic Area and which brings them in to the European internal market), the Nordic Council has been in search of renewed purpose. Over the last 15 years the cracks have become ever more obvious in Nordic co-operation: it has been downgraded to cover soft policy issues such as culture and while economics and other hard policy has been transferred to the European level. With a joint government and a parliament based ON a common constitution, the federal Nordic state should concentrate ON foreign policy and defence, the economy and the labour-market, and research, leaving most other policy areas to the regional authorities in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Reykjavik and Stockholm. Wetterberg compares his Nordic federation to the Swiss model and links If north European countries have economy and political influence, or - as for them as for the leader of north European 5 countries, argues the possibility of drawing up the north European union hold a conference and to overcome the they are possible extreme independence spiritsToday,
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