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Almost in Europe? How Finland's Embarrassing Entry into Eureka Captured Policy Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2016

VEERA MITZNER*
Affiliation:
Columbia University, Department of History, 413 Fayerweather Hall (MC 2527), 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA; vm2457@columbia.edu

Abstract

Common historical narratives of Finnish European policy emphasise the sudden and dramatic change of 1991–1995, when Finland, as a reaction to the collapse of the Soviet Union, rejected its previously cautious approach and wholeheartedly embraced the goal of joining a unified Europe. This article, however, shows that, already in the mid-1980s, the Finnish political and economic elites questioned the country's position in the Cold War order and took bold steps in order to forge closer relations with Western Europe. A key event was the struggle for membership in Eureka, a novel European project designed to enhance cooperation in high technology.

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2 The article is mainly based on archive sources from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The decision to join Eureka was prepared by a small circle of officials of the ministry and barely discussed within other institutions and government bodies. However, I also consulted a number of other Finnish archives (the Archive of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Helsinki; the Archive of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Helsinki; Central Archives of Finnish Business Records, Mikkeli; The National Archives, Helsinki – the archive of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum, EVA, and the private papers of President Mauno Koivisto; Labour Archives in Finland, Helsinki – the private papers of former Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa), and conducted several interviews with public officials involved in the process.

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120 Note of the French Foreign Ministry, Paris, 8 July 1985, 1930INVA/5196, MAEF.

121 Aunesluoma, Vapaakaupan tiellä, 257–8, 489–501.

122 Ibid. 227–9.

123 Briefing of the French Foreign Ministry, Paris, 27 Sept. 1983, 1930INVA/5196, MAEF.

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