{"id":20844,"date":"2024-02-24T05:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T00:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20844"},"modified":"2025-04-06T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:34:02","slug":"nordic-baltic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nordic-baltic-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic-Baltic cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nordic-Baltic cooperation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a regional cooperation format which as of 1992 has brought together\u00a0five Nordic countries and three\u00a0Baltic countries in order to discuss important regional and international issues in an informal atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li>In 2000, it was decided that the Nordic-Baltic cooperation format would be called\u00a0Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8).<\/li>\n<li>Member countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.<\/li>\n<li>Nordic countries are members of the\u00a0European Union (except Iceland and Norway which are members of EFTA).<\/li>\n<li>Nordic countries collectively represent an economy of more than USD 2.012 trillion with a population of just above 27 million allowing a very high standard of living.<\/li>\n<li>India and NB8\n<ul>\n<li>The Nordic-Baltic cooperation with India spans fields as diverse as innovation, green transition, maritime, health, intellectual property rights, new technologies, space cooperation and artificial intelligence, student exchanges, culture and tourism.<\/li>\n<li>Trade and investment figures between the Nordic region and India are steadily increasing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1) What is the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an intergovernmental organisation established in 1960 by the Stockholm Convention.It aims to promote free trade and economic integration between its members within Europe and globally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/the-nb8-visit-to-india-focuses-on-cooperation-and-trust\/article67879587.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The NB8 visit to India focuses on cooperation and trust<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordic-Baltic cooperation is a regional cooperation format which as of 1992 has brought together five Nordic countries and three Baltic countries in order to discuss important regional and international issues in an informal atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}