Interdependence versus integration: Denmark, Scandinavia and Western Europe : 1945 - 1960; [conference held at Meilgaard, Castle, near Aarhus, June 1992]
In: Odense University studies in history and social sciences 193
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In: Odense University studies in history and social sciences 193
In: Cold war history, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 189-211
ISSN: 1743-7962
In: Cold war history: a Frank Cass journal, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 189-212
ISSN: 1468-2745
In: European history quarterly, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 159-160
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Journal of European integration history: Revue d'histoire de l'intégration européenne = Zeitschrift für Geschichte der europäischen Integration, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 37-64
ISSN: 0947-9511
In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 215
ISSN: 0105-0710
In: Contemporary European history, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 59-92
ISSN: 1469-2171
This article examines the interaction between Danish European and Nordic attitudes and policies in the postwar period. Attention is primarily dedicated to an analysis of how Nordic attitudes and policies have influenced Denmark's relations with Europe, and especially with the EEC/EU project. The article highlights how this interaction has moved through several different phases, and how priorities have shifted over time, with the Nordic policies functioning as an alternative to, as a platform for, and as a supplement to, Danish European policies. Despite the fact that most of the political elite early on lost belief in Norden as an alternative to Europe, this idea, stimulated by the intensive official and private cultivation of Nordic co-operation, kept its attraction among broad segments of the population. As a consequence a schism has developed between elite and popular attitutudes twoards European integration, and part of this schism must be explained with reference to how the vision of a Nordic alternative has continued to serve as a de-legitimiser of Danish involvement with the EEC/EU. However, this interdependence may be entering a new phase as a result of Finland and Sweden entering the EU in 1995.