In focus 2003
Theme: Nordic cooperation assumes new dimensions
For more than 50 years, citizens of Nordic countries have been permitted to move at ease across the borders, within a common labour market. Now some 20 million new next-door neighbours will join them, when the Baltic states and Poland become members of the European Union. Nordic cooperation is developing at a steady rate in the Baltic region, and at the same time, the northern dimension of the EU is leading to closer cooperation between the Nordic countries and the north-western regions of Russia.
