The the Scandinavian Council and the Scandinavian Conseil of the ministers are forums of co-operation for the governments and the parliamentary institutions of the Scandinavian Pays. They aim at, within the framework of the “ Scandinavian co-operation ”, to carry out tasks which each State could not only ensure him.

The symbol of the swan, whose eight feathers represent the eight members, was adopted in 1985.

Members

One counts, among the members of the two Councils, the States fully independent just like of the autonomous territories.

States

Autonomous territories

The Scandinavian Council

The Scandinavian Council was instituted in 1952 following the experiments drawn from the Second world war. It is intended for the interparliamentary co-operation between the Member States.

Composition and procedure rules

The Council includes/understands 87 representatives, coming from the five States and the three autonomous territories. The representatives all, of the members of Parliament in their country of origin, are designated by their political parties and elected officials by the national parliaments. The election with the Scandinavian Council is thus indirect. A presidium, whose members are elected by their pars, ensures the direction of the institution.

The Council, since 1996, functions on the basis of annual ordinary session. “Sessions with topic” on precise subjects can also be organized. Even out of the part-sessions, a continual work is ensured thanks to five commissions and four political parties.

The offices of the Scandinavian Council, for the majority, are located at Copenhagen, but antennas of the organization exist on the territory of each member.

The Scandinavian Council itself does not have the capacity to enact standards, but each government with the obligation to transpose its decisions, on the same model as the directives of the European Union.

Achievements

As of its year of creation, common rules were instituted between its members concerning the job market and the social security. The Council in addition guaranteed the freedom of circulation of the citizens between each Member State, without passport with the Scandinavian Union of the passports.

In the strategic field, the members of the Council know very different situations: the Denmark, the Norway and the Iceland belong to NATO, while the Sweden and the Finland are neutral. So the Scandinavian Council was never implied in businesses of military nature.

The Scandinavian Council of the ministers

The Scandinavian Council of the ministers was born in 1971. He is intended for the intergovernmental co-operation between the Member States. It consists, on the same model as the Council of Ministers of the European Union, in regular meetings organized between the ministers homologous with each Member State.

The organization and the behavior of the Councils are allocated in theory to respective the Prime Ministers of each State. In practice, this responsibility is reserved for the ministers for the Scandinavian co-operation and the Committee for the Co-operation, which in addition coordinates the daily activity of the Council.

As its name indicates it, the Scandinavian Council of the ministers consists of several councils of ministers according to the tackled subjects (economy, Agriculture, Justice…). In general, the homologous ministers meet twice a year.

The presidency of the Council of Ministers, held for one one year period, carries out a rotation between the five Scandinavian Pays. The decisions are made unanimously, and are prepared upstream by committees of experienced national civils servant.

Scandinavian co-operation in debate

During the Sixties, the idea appeared to make evolve/move the institutions of Scandinavian co-operation in an organization similar to that of the European Economic community. A treaty was negotiated for the creation of a new institution, the “NordEk”, which one projected to establish the seat with Malmö in Sweden. However the Finland did not dare to ratify the treaty because of its particular relations with the Soviet Union.

The project not having more raison d'être without the participation of Finland, the Norway and the Denmark chose to stand as a candidate at the entry in the EEC. The accession of Denmark was effective in 1973, contrary to Norway which rejected finally this prospect by Référendum ( Voir Politique of Norway ). The Sweden and the Finland, as for them, joined finally the European Union in 1995, Norway reiterating its refusal, again by referendum.

See too

External bonds

  • the Scandinavian Council and the Scandinavian Council of the ministers (official site)

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