“Unite the Nordic markets in a federal state"
A Nordic federal state would create the world’s tenth largest economy and turn the region into a global power player.
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Government ministers, parliamentarians and representatives from non-government organizations from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway met in Stockholm on Tuesday for the annual session of the Nordic Council.
While some critics argue the Nordic Council is outdated others claim a Nordic cooperation is more important today than ever.
Public debater and historian Gunnar Wetterberg wrote the same day in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter that the countries would gain from creating a Nordic federal state.
With a combined population of 25 million and a total GDP of 1,224,601 million dollar the advantages are to great to neglect, he said. It would create the world’s tenth largest economy and make the region a global power player, even larger than Russia and Brazil.
“A united Nordic region could bring stronger contribution to the European development and uphold Nordic values and interests in a more powerful way than today”, Gunnar Wetterberg wrote in the debate article.
A combined federal state would not only generate economic growth and stability on the financial markets, it would also boost Nordic literature, music and theatre.
“The federal state would be a great and top-to-bottom institutional change that can deliver many economic, social and cultural advantages”, he pointed out.
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