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How unique is the Nordic Council?

How unique is the Nordic cooperation, with its Nordic Council and Nordic Council of Ministers? The nearest European parallels are the Benelux Union and the Benelux Parliament. At least in one area they have taken cooperation even further. But while people in the Nordics call themselves nordbor, no one calls themselves Beneluxianian.
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Three observers at the Nordic Council session

Christine Bogaert, Secretary-General for the Benelux Parliament, Jef van den Bergh, Belgian MP and Patricia Creutz, Chair for the Benelux Parliament, also participated at the Nordic Council session in Helsinki, and found time to talk to the Nordic Labour Journal in the funkis style Swedish parliament café.

Regional cooperation in the middle of Europe

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Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg began cooperating while their governments were in exile in London during WWII. In 1944 they agreed on a customs union which came into force in 1948. In 1958 the three countries entered into a union called Benelux, which is organised with a Benelux Parliament comprising 49 MPs from the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourgian parliaments, plus a Council of Ministers.

 


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