The formal Nordic cooperation takes place within the framework of the Nordic Council, which is the parliamentarians’ cooperation body, and the Nordic Council of Ministers, which is the governmental cooperation body. Furthermore, informal Nordic cooperation takes place in the field of foreign and defence policy, development assistance and foreign trade policy. In recent years, the Baltic countries have joined the informal cooperation in some areas, especially in relation to the EU.
A comprehensive informal and practical cooperation has developed between the Nordic countries’ embassies and representations abroad. For example, other Nordic embassies will assist Danish citizens, if Denmark is not represented in a given country and vice versa. In recent years, the cooperation among the Nordic countries has been intensified in the field of Nordic consular emergency assistance. The background to this initiative was the experience from the Tsunami disaster in South East Asia in 2004. Another practical example of the close Nordic cooperation is the establishment of the common Nordic embassy complex in Berlin.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark