The NEBI Yearbook 2000 : North European and Baltic Sea Integration

**The NEBI Yearbook 2000** aims to provide a balanced picture of both the integrationist opportunities and disintegrationist pressures in the North European and Baltic Sea area - a region with over 50 million inhabitants and great economic and trading potentials. It brings together a wide range of scientific methods and perspectives in addition to a comprehensive statistical section with information found nowhere else. The result is a unique source of up-to-date knowledge of this increasingly important European region. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Cross-border Integration in the Øresund Region: A NEBI Showcase?....Pages 3-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Migration Potential and Migration Effects after EU Enlargement....Pages 27-47 Unemployment, Migration and the Effects of EU Membership on the Polish Labour Market....Pages 49-61 Immigration to Scandinavia: Good or Bad for the Nordic Economies?....Pages 63-75 Approaching a Single Labour Market: Emerging Migration Patterns in the Baltic Sea Area....Pages 77-98 Cross-border Commuting and Integration....Pages 99-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 The Politics of Sustainability in the European Arctic....Pages 117-126 Underwriting the Environment: Development Bank Influence in the Barents Region....Pages 127-144 Environmental Aid to Poland and Win-Win Strategies....Pages 145-162 The Regional Economic Effects of the Femer Belt Link for the Western Baltic Area....Pages 163-183 Russia in the Baltic Sea Roundwood Trade....Pages 185-197 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Transborder Co-operation: An Assessment....Pages 201-216 The European Union and the Baltic Sea Region: Problems and Prospects for Stability....Pages 217-225 The Union’s Institutional Reform and Enlargement....Pages 227-242 State to Region: Nordic Co-operation and the Winds of Change....Pages 243-250 Regional Lobbying in Brussels....Pages 251-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Building Military Stability in the Baltic Sea Region....Pages 259-273 US Policy Toward Northern Europe: Political and Security Aspects....Pages 275-287 Security Development in the Barents Region....Pages 289-297 The Process of Russian Decentralisation: Baltic Policy Implications....Pages 299-314 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Security Aspects of the EU’s Northern Dimension....Pages 315-327 North European and Baltic Statistics....Pages 329-344 Back Matter....Pages 345-485 Thorvald Stoltenberg President of the Norwegian Red Cross Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board The 2000 edition of the NEBI Yearbook goes to press a few weeks before the of the fIxed 0resund Link between Copenhagen and Malmo, and the opening celebrations of this magnifIcent construction have already begun. Way back in the nineteenth century visionaries started dreaming of this connection between lands that used to belong together but had been torn apart by the visitations of the modern era: fanaticism, war, genocide and competing nationalisms. To be sure, the 0resund Link will have major economic impacts in both halves of the Zealand-Skane 0resund region, and the benefIcial consequences can already be detected in the shape of rising investments and falling unemployment in both the Greater Copenhagen and the Malmo-Lund areas. But to understand the true measure of the Link, one has to consider its political and even symbolic implications. The bridge is nothing less than the physical embodiment of a most welcome reversal of historical trends towards division, isolation and strife that have for too long afflicted not only Denmark and Sweden bur influenced rela tions all around the Baltic Sea and in the territories adjacent to the Barents Sea in the far north - in short the entire NEBI area