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| Working languages | Danish Norwegian Swedish |
| Seat | Copenhagen |
| General Secretary | Frida Nokken |
| Area - Members - With Greenland | Ranked 19th 1,318,00 km² 3,493,00 km² (7th)¹ |
| Population - Total - Density | Ranked 45th 24,299,610 18.7/km² (6.9/km²)¹ |
| Foundation | 1952 ( 1971)² |
| Currencies | Danish krone Norwegian krone Icelandic króna Swedish krona EuroThe euro ISO 4217 code EUR is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five nations that form the European Union (and four outside it, as well as Montenegro and Kosovo), which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It is the result of the most significan (Finland) |
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTCCoordinated Universal Time or UTC also sometimes referred to as Zulu time , the basis for civil time differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. Time zones around the world are expressed as positi 0 to +2 (-3)¹ |
| ¹ Including Greenland ² Nordic Council of Ministers | |
The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers is a cooperation forum for the governments of the Nordic countriesThe Nordic countries is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. The Nordic countries have an aggregate population of about 24 million. The Nordic Countries are also the member countries of the Nordic Council: Denmark Finland Icelan. It was established following World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough and its first concrete results was the introduction in 1952 of a common labour market, social security, and free movement across borders without passports for the countries' citizens.
The Nordic Council has offices in Copenhagen and various installations in each separate country. The council does not have any formal power on its own, but each government has to implement any decisions through its country's legislative assembly (parliament). With Denmark, Norway, and Iceland being members of NATO, Sweden being neutral, and Finland having had cooperation treaties with then Soviet Union, the Nordic Council has not been involved in any military cooperation.
The Nordic Council uses Swedish, Danish and Norwegian as its working languages.
In the 1960s there were plans to develop the Nordic cooperation into an organisation similar to the European Economic Community. A treaty was negotiated to establish a new organisation, NordEk headquartered in Malmö. Though ultimately it was the case that Finland did not dare to ratify the treaty due to its special relationship to the Soviet Union. Without Finland the idea was defunct, and Norway and Denmark chose to apply for membership in the EEC. Denmark became a member of the EEC in 1973, but Norway rejected accession in the same year, in a referendum. Sweden did not apply due to its non alliance policy, which was aimed at preserving neutrality.
Sweden and Finland joined the European Union in 1995.
See also: Scandinavian defense union