Scotland after Brexit - Lessons from the Nordics
George Square Theatre at University of Edinburgh.
Saturday 29th October, 12-5.30pm
In co-operation with Edinburgh University's Academy of
Government
Supported by the Scottish Government
How should a small nation like Scotland engage with Europe
-- the Nordic countries have experienced every conceivable variant on the
theme. Denmark (since 1973), Sweden and Finland (since 1995) are all
members of the EU. Iceland and Norway are not EU members but belong to the EEA
– the European Economic Area that underpins the EU. Denmark’s devolved
governments in the Faroes and Greenland are neither members of the EU nor EEA
and only Finland has joined both the EU and the Euro zone.Travel is made easier
by the fact that all Nordic nations – whether EU members or not – are part of
the Schengen free travel zone. Currencies change at every border yet trade for
most Nordic nations is with one another.
Inevitably though this is not the whole story. Behind the
national picture, attitudes to Europe and the EU in the Nordic region are as
complex as anywhere else in Europe, fractured by differences between political
parties, economic sectors and social groups and between town and country, core
and periphery. Maybe there is something for Scotland to learn.
Speakers:
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson - ex leader of
Iceland's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former Minister of Finance and
Foreign Affairs responsible for Iceland's EEA negotiations in the 1990's
Professor Mary Hilson - historian in the
Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark
Tuomas Iso-Markku - Research Fellow, (The)
Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Ulrik Pram Gad - Associate Professor of Arctic
Culture and Politics at University of Aalborg, Denmark
Dr. Duncan Halley - Norwegian Institute for
Nature Research
Bjort Samuelsen – Republican MP in the Faroese
Parliament, Member of the West Nordic Council and former Minister for Trade and
Industry, Infrastructure and Gender Equality
Chaired by Lesley Riddoch
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