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Examine the reasons for the different attitudes to European integration in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
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Examine the reasons for the different attitudes to European integration in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. This essay will illuminate and analyse the impact of the diversity of national cultures and political attitudes on EU institution building and European integration in the wider sense. The future of European integration in terms of for example institutional and constitutional shape has become a battleground for competing ideas on 'the future Europe' in another words for focal point for grand politics. None of the Nordic countries were among the founding members of the EC. The Nordic countries have got involved in the European integration process at different points in time and to different degree. Denmark became a member of the European Community (EC) in 1973, while Finland and Sweden joined in 1995. Denmark, Norway and Sweden instead joined the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in which the UK was the leading country, from its start in...
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