Region building

From the outside, it is assumed that the populations of the Nordic countries are fairly homogeneous and that there is a relatively high level of…

Listen to an account of the Danish decolonisation of Greenland in either English or Danish! This podcast is part of a series where existing material…

Denmark has been a cautious participant of European supranational integration since the Second World War, evaluating the pros and cons of integration,…

Are the Nordic countries really that similar to one another? - Or different from the rest of the world? Is discussion of 'the Nordics' simply a…

Immediately before and after the Nordic Council was founded in 1952, there was much debate over what form cooperation should take amongst the…

The NORDEK plan (so called due to the Swedish name for Nordic Economic Union (NORDiskt EKonomiskt samarbete)) grew out of a Danish initiative to…

Iceland was a largely uninhabited island in the northern Atlantic Ocean where Norsemen settled around 870. It began as a ‘free state’ but became a…

As small, open economies, all the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden) have been well integrated in the regional and…

Read a potted history of Iceland from the Vikings to today.

The Danes voted on membership of the EEC on 2nd October 1972, and two days later, the French newspaper Le Monde published an article in which the…