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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• SØRENSEN, CARSTEN LEHMANN

Titel

Danish Party Policies on European and Nordic Cooperation

Ist Teil von

• Cooperation and conflict, 1979-01, Vol.14 (4), p.171-191

Ort / Verlag

Stockholm: Universitetsforlaget

Erscheinungsjahr

1979

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article studies in detail the EC policies of eleven Danish parties with special emphasis on their implication for future Nordic cooperation. It is empirically based on election programmes and manifestoes used in the first direct elections to the European Parliament, where Danish parties were forced to state and explain their perceptions in a clear and explicit way on a number of issues related to European and Nordic cooperation. The EC election was an opportunity to discuss the future position of Denmark in international politics, but it largely developed into a repetition of the 1972 referendum on the costs and benefits of EC membership. The conclusion is that Danish political parties have been extremely status quo minded and immobile in their foreign policy perceptions throughout the seventies. If, therefore, Nordic cooperation is to be stimulated in the foreseeable future, initiatives in that direction will most certainly not come from Danish political parties, who seem to be locked in stereotyped perceptions of the foreign policy position of Denmark.