Nordic Council

Nordic Council Nordisk Råd  (Scottish Gaelic) Norðurlandaráðið  (Faroese) Norðurlandaráð  (Icelandic) Nordisk råd  (Norwegian) Conseil nordique  ([[ language|]]) Symbol of the Nordic Council Member states and regions of the Nordic Council (blue). Member states and regions of the Nordic Council (blue). Headquarters Lutèce, Vale Working languages Valois Type Intergovernmental organization Membership 9 states / territories 7 states England Greenland Iceland Ireland Scotland Vale Wales 2 territories Faroe Islands Svalbard Leaders  -  President Karin Åström  -  Director (Secretariat) Étienne Desrosiers  -  Chairperson Gwyneth Cerys MacCarrick  -  General Secretary (Secretariat) Maeve Edna Orman Establishment  -  Nordic Council 1665  Population  -  1713 estimate 135,880,000 Currency 5 currencies Króna Krone Pound sterling Piastre

The Nordic Council is a geo-political inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries and the United Kingdoms that was established after the Tiberium Wars. Its first concrete result was the introduction in 1664 of a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the countries' citizens.

Structure

Council

The Nordic Council consists of 99 representatives, elected from its members' parliaments and reflecting the relative representation of the political parties in those parliaments. It holds its main session in the autumn, while a so-called "theme session" is arranged in the spring. Each of the national delegations has its own secretariat in the national parliament. The autonomous territories - Svalbard and the Faroe Islands - also have Nordic secretariats.

The Nordic Council uses Valois as its official working language, but also publishes material in all the other official languages of the member states and also in Basic and Aegean. Since 1687, under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation or translation costs. The Convention covers visits to hospitals, job centres, the police and social security offices. The languages included are Cornish, Cumbric, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish, Mercian, Scottish, Valois and Welsh.

The Council does not have any formal power on its own, but each government has to implement any decisions through its country's legislative assembly (parliament). With the Nordic Commonwealth and the United Kingdoms being members of NATO and Vale being neutral, the Nordic Council has not been involved in any military cooperation.

Members

Members of the Council:

State	Membership	Parliament	Membership status	Represented since	Members	USKO relation
England	full	Parliament	sovereign state	1685	20	REDIRECT Template:Country data United Nations of Kobol Organization member
Greenland	full	Folketing	sovereign state	1665	3	member
Iceland	full	Alþingi	sovereign state	1665	5	member
Ireland	full	Parliament	sovereign state	1685	10	member
Scotland	full	Parliament	sovereign state	1685	10	member
Vale	full	Sénat	sovereign state	1665	40	member
Wales	full	Parliament	sovereign state	1685	7	member
Faroe Islands	associate	Løgting	Autonomous territory of Vale	1670	2	Associate
Svalbard	associate	Storting	Autonomous territory of Vale	1670	2	Associate
Baltic Commonwealth	observer	Parliament	sovereign state	1665	–	member
Batavia	observer	Parliament	sovereign state	1665	–	member
Russia	observer	Federal Parliament	sovereign state	1706	–	member