Greenland, the Faroes and Åland in Nordic and European Co-operation:Two Approaches towards Accommodating Autonomies

• Main Author: Stephan, Sarah
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Greenland; Faroes
• Online Access: https://research.abo.fi/en/publications/207edbf1-f70b-4303-b51f-e1b80d6d69ac; https://doi.org/10.1163/15718115; http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15718115-02403004

This article looks at the perplexing encounter between territorial autonomies and international organizations by exploring the legal-institutional frameworks for accommodating Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands within the Nordic Council/Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden) and the European Union ( EU ). In Norden an attempt has been made to translate the very core of autonomy, namely constitutionally protected legislative power, into a legal-institutional framework for multi-level governance. The small number of autonomies and the scope and scale of Norden allows for a one-size-fits-all solution. The encounter between autonomies and an international organization is not only more challenging in the case of the EU , it is also broader in scale and in scope. Despite the EU ’s individually and often densely regulated relationships with OCT s and sui generis arrangements, dependent territories remain to some extent uncharted territories in the context of the EU .