WE'RE WORKING TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE, CAPABLE, AND INTEGRATED NORDIC REGION IN 2025

This programme presents our priorities and joint objectives for our presidency year, 2025. Finland’s and Åland’s co-presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers is an expression of our deep commitment to Nordic co-operation. Similarly, it is another link in the chain, whereby each Nordic country takes its turn in holding the presidency.

The agreement-based intergovernmental co-operation of the Nordic countries brings many advantages to the inhabitants of the Nordic Region. Nordic co-operation as it stands was not a matter of course, but the result of a decades-long historical process in which the Nordic Council of Ministers, which was established in 1971, plays an important role. It is important that, during our presidency, we preserve and further develop this valuable tradition of co-operation based on mutual trust.

In recent years, the importance of Nordic co-operation has grown further and it is important that we highlight its concrete achievements in the public arena in the Nordic countries. In a rapidly changing international environment, it is crucial that the Nordic countries work together to find sustainable solutions to current challenges, as well as put forward a Nordic perspective globally. Together we are stronger.

The Nordics – strong and united