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- Title
Almost in Europe? How Finland's Embarrassing Entry into Eureka Captured Policy Change.
- Authors
MITZNER, VEERA
- Abstract
Common historical narratives of Finnish European policy emphasise the sudden and dramatic change of 1991–1995, when Finland, as a reaction to the collapse of the Soviet Union, rejected its previously cautious approach and wholeheartedly embraced the goal of joining a unified Europe. This article, however, shows that, already in the mid-1980s, the Finnish political and economic elites questioned the country's position in the Cold War order and took bold steps in order to forge closer relations with Western Europe. A key event was the struggle for membership in Eureka, a novel European project designed to enhance cooperation in high technology.
- Subjects
FINLAND; COLD War, 1945-1991; EUROPEAN Union membership; FINNISH politics &; government; HIGH technology; EUROPEAN Commission; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 3, p481
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777316000230