# Nordek

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{{Short description|Failed proposed organization for Nordic economic cooperation}}
'''Nordek''' (in [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language): ''Organisationen för nordiskt ekonomiskt samarbete''. In [Danish](/source/Danish_language) and [Norwegian](/source/Norwegian_language): '''Nordøk''' for ''Nordisk økonomi''. In [Finnish](/source/Finnish_language): ''Pohjoismaiden talousalue'') was a planned organisation for [Nordic](/source/Nordic_countries) economic cooperation similar to the [European Economic Community](/source/European_Economic_Community) EEC, based on a proposal in 1968 by Danish Prime Minister [Hilmar Baunsgaard](/source/Hilmar_Baunsgaard). A treaty was negotiated to establish the new organisation, to be headquartered in [Malmö](/source/Malm%C3%B6), Sweden. Ultimately, [Finland](/source/Finland) did not ratify the treaty due to its [relationship](/source/Finno-Soviet_Treaty_of_1948) with the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union). Then [Denmark](/source/Denmark) joined [EEC](/source/European_Economic_Community) and [Sweden](/source/Sweden), [Norway](/source/Norway), [Finland](/source/Finland), and [Iceland](/source/Iceland) signed bilateral [free trade treaties](/source/free_trade_agreement) with the EEC.

==See also==
*[Nordic Council](/source/Nordic_Council)

==Further reading==

* Jónsson, Guðmundur. 2009. “On the Sidelines: Iceland and the Nordek Negotiations, 1968–1970.” in Between Nordic Ideology, Economic Interests and Political Reality: New Perspectives on Nordek, 159–167. Helsinki: [Finnish Society of Science and Letters](/source/Finnish_Society_of_Science_and_Letters).
* Claes Wiklund, "The Zig-Zag Course of the Nordek Negotiations," Scandinavian Political Studies 5 (1970)

==External links==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081214135301/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902598,00.html Europe: A Nordic Common Market] [TIME](/source/Time_(magazine))16 May 1969 
*[http://www.eurotrib.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2008/3/20/183947/374 A Nordic Union (That Wasn't)] European Tribune, 30 March 2008
*[http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/master/stampehl-jan-2002-01-22/HTML/chapter3.html 3 Die Nordek-Verhandlungen (in German)] Jan Stampehl: “Ist Finnland ein nordisches Land?” Der Nordek-Prozess 1968–70 als Fallstudie

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