Identity Matching in the Nordic Baltic-region
Identity Matching in the Nordic Baltic-region

Author: Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published:

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9289378514

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Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2024-511/ The Nordic and Baltic region represents some of the most digitally advanced societies in the world. An enabling element for this is the availability and vast adoption of electronic identity (eID) means, both among citizens and service providers. This report is part of a mutual effort that was initiated by Cross Border Digital Services Programme and the Nordic-Baltic eID Cooperation (NOBID) project with the aim to expand the Nordic-Baltic countries´ national success in eID to also cover cross-border interoperability and digital mobility in the region. The content of this report, delivered by Civitta and SK ID Solutions, investigates the landscape of cross-border identity matching of natural persons. It does so by providing an overview of the current situation and practices, from country to country, as well presenting insights and perspectives to how identity matching can be solved.

Handbook of cross-border data exchange within the Nordic and Baltic countries
Handbook of cross-border data exchange within the Nordic and Baltic countries

Author: Rissanen, Riikka

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published:

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9289377054

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Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-542/ The Handbook of cross-border data exchange is part of the project ‘World’s smoothest cross-border mobility and daily life through digitalisation’, with a broader objective of streamlining the daily life and mobility of citizens and companies across borders by facilitating the exchange of data between authorities in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The handbook is collects the lessons learned in cross-border data exchange in the fields of studying and using healthservices in another Nordic and Baltic country, and in the use of Nordic and Baltic legal databases. The aim is to provide the reader with insights and ideas for future development by pinpointing identified networks, interesting initiatives, and potential funding mechanisms, as well as highlighting case examples that could be utilised in the development of cross-border collaboration.

Baseline study of cross-border data exchange in the Nordic and Baltic countries: Final report
Baseline study of cross-border data exchange in the Nordic and Baltic countries: Final report

Author: Dahl, Anne

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9289371897

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Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-547/ The Finnish presidency project on data exchange "Achieving the World's Smoothest Cross-Border Mobility and Daily Life Through Digitalisation" (2021–2023) has produced this baseline study report. The report outlines the current situation of cross-border data exchange between authorities in the Nordic and Baltic countries, while focusing on the three work packages of the presidency project: Studying in another Nordic-Baltic country, using health services in another Nordic-Baltic country, and the versatile use of the Nordic-Baltic legislative databases. Additionally, the barriers to cross-border data exchange was assessed based on the four interoperability layers of the European Interoperability Framework: legal, organisational, semantic and technical interoperability. The report will form the basis of the continued work of the presidency project.

Sub-regionalisms in the European Union: Bridge-builders or spoilers?
Sub-regionalisms in the European Union: Bridge-builders or spoilers?

Author: Anna-Lena Kirch

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 383255338X

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In today's interconnected, differentiated and polarized European Union, sub-regional groupings between the national and EU level are a highly relevant empirical phenomenon. Despite their importance, the interactions between sub-regionalisms and EU actors and processes remain under-researched. This book fills this large research gap by applying a systematic comparative approach. Taking into account a huge corpus of empirical data gained through expert interviews and document analysis, this study provides the conceptual and empirical groundwork necessary to better understand EU sub-regionalism. For the timeframe between 2009 and 2018, it analyses the scope of sub-regional cooperation in the Baltic, Benelux and Visegrád groupings. Moreover, it compares their respective institutional design, political identity, foreign policy as well as their external recognition by EU actors. A special focus lies on their role in six EU policy cases, including EU budget negotiations, TTIP, the drafting process of the EU Global Strategy, refugee relocation quotas, the revision of the posted workers directive and defence cooperation through PESCO. In its conclusion, this book identifies two sub-regional archetypes: functional hubs and political tools. While differing in many regards, the shared assessment finds that the overall bridge-building efforts of the Baltic, Benelux and Visegrád sub-regionalisms exceed their spoiling potential.

Nordic-Baltic Regional Report
Nordic-Baltic Regional Report

Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2023-09-04

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13:

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Recent money laundering cases have exposed financial integrity risks from cross-border payments and potential impact on financial stability to the integrated Nordic-Baltic financial sector, attracted international scrutiny of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) supervision throughout the region, and so accelerated the momentum for reform. The purpose of the project is to conduct an analysis of cross-border money laundering (ML) threats and vulnerabilities in the Nordic-Baltic region – encompassing Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden (the Nordic-Baltic Constituency or NBC) – and issue a final report containing recommendations for mitigating the potential risks.

Borders in Post-Socialist Europe
Borders in Post-Socialist Europe

Author: Tassilo Herrschel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317173112

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'Borders' have attracted considerable attention in public and academic debates in light of the impact of globalisation and, in Europe, the end of the divisions of the Cold War era. Instead, being inside or outside of the EU has become a major paradigmatic divide between claimed 'spheres of influence' by 'Brussels' and 'Moscow' respectively. In the aftermath of the end of communism, established certainties no longer seemed to apply. And this included many of the borders within the former eastern Bloc, with some losing their relevance, while others re-assert themselves. As its particular contribution, this book adopts a symbiotic approach to the analysis of borders, drawing on a political-economy perspective, while also recognising the importance of the socio-cultural dimension as found in 'border studies'. This seeks to do greater justice to the complex, composite nature of borders as geo-political, state-legal and cultural-historic constructs in both theory and practice. In addition, the book's approach stretches across spatial scales to capture the multi-level nature of borders. The first part of the book presents the conceptual framework as it sets out to embrace this multi-faceted, multi-layered nature of borders. In the second part, case studies from north-central Europe, including the Baltic Sea Region, exemplify the complexity of borders in the context of post-socialist transformation and continuing EU-isation.

The Baltic Sea Region, Conflict Or Cooperation?
The Baltic Sea Region, Conflict Or Cooperation?

Author: Christian Wellmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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International relations in Europe are under transition. What will be the outcome? Enhanced integration, new fragmentation, a centre-periphery structure, or multiple overlapping regionalization? A stable renaissance or a soon fade out of the nation-state? Will conflict or cooperation prevail? In this book 22 scholars from all Baltic Sea littoral states, Norway and the United States track these questions by focussing them to the Baltic Sea Region. In the past it was structured by the characteristics of the "old" Europe in terms of security arrangements (WTO, NATO, Neutrals), economic ties (COMECON, EC, EFTA), and sociopolitical system (capitalism, socialism), while today it is faced with all the obstacles and contradictions as well as possibilities of an emerging new European architecture, still undefined, but in any case asking for reorientation in the fields of security, economy, and last not least identity. The book puts special emphasis to security aspects and disarmament (including conversion) and to Regionalism as being both, a consequence of the change in progress as well as a strategy to shape it to a desired end: cooperation instead of conflict.

East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective
East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective

Author: E. Tulmets

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-29

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1137315768

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How have countries in the EU that were previously under Communist rule influenced the creation of a European policy towards other Post-Soviet nations? This study explores countries including the Czech Republic and Poland and shows how they have helped develop a coherent policy based reconciling political and historical foreign policy identities.

The Baltic Sea Area
The Baltic Sea Area

Author: Sverre Jervell

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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Jervell, S.: A report from Europe's northern periphery. - S.11-25. Waever, O.: The Baltic Sea region - Does it exist? - S.26-38. Joenniemi, P.: Baltic-Nordic relations: Prospects for future. - S.39-61. Neumann, I. B.: From the Nordic region to what? - S.62-73. Jonson, L.: Russia in the Nordic region in the period of change. - S.77-106. Vozgrin, V.: Sankt-Petersburg as Russia's northern capital. - S.107-119. Cheredeev, S.: Economic development and reforms in the Russian Arctic under transition to market economy. - S.120-129. Vares, P. ; Zhurjari, O.: The foreign policy on the Baltic states. - S.133-141. Kukk, M.: Estonia in transition - Reform or restitution? - S.144-157. Puga, A.: Latvia: realities of the return to Europe. - S.158-172. Antanavicius, K.: The Lithuanian economy: its present condition and the necessary steps for its recovery. - S.173-179. Gricius, A.: How far is Lithuania from Scandinavian countries and contemporary Europe? - S.180-196. Vilkas, E.: Lithuania - interlink of West Europe and Russia. - S.197-206. Tunander, O.: The strategic significance of the Nordic-Baltic region. - S.211-229. Visuri, P.: The changing political and military status of the Baltic region. - S.230-238.

Europeanization of National Security Identity
Europeanization of National Security Identity

Author: Pernille Rieker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-05-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1134180365

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This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national security identities? Focusing on the four largest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive study analyzes how and to what extent the EU affects national security identities. It shows how the EU has developed into a special kind of security actor that, due to its level of political integration, has an important influence on national security approaches and identities. This new analysis applies a fresh combination of integration theory, security studies and studies of Europeanization. The main argument in this book is that, rather than adapting to the changing conditions created by the end of the Cold War, the Nordic states changed their security approaches in response to the European integration process. It shows how different phases in the post Cold War European integration process have influenced the national security approaches of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. While all four security approaches seem to have been Europeanized, the speed and the character of these changes seem to vary due to a combination of differing ties to the EU and differing security policy traditions. This new book will be of great interest to all students of European Defence, national security and of security studies in general.