Abstract
The analysis of the argumentation of Nordic Council representatives and the Nordic press regarding the realization of the Nordek plan, has tried to clarify how the fall of the plan was closely connected with different goals in respect of the plan's re lationship to the European Communities. By means of a quantitative content analysis, we have established the premises on which the different national and political groups based their positions toward this relationship. The results of our analysis point at the existence of conflicting aims as regards the coordination of the plan with EC objec tives. The debate about Nordek further seems to show that security factors to a con siderable extent defined the framework also for the functional aspects of Nordic in tegration.
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