ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the limits of Nordic cooperation in facilitating free movement, from the creation of the Nordic passport union to accession to the Schengen area. It focuses on two concrete cases in which freedom of movement within the Nordic region has challenged, renegotiated and it deals with Danish passport affairs. The Schengen Agreement and the Nordic passport union co-exist in a complex relationship, which increasingly challenges the status and relevance of Nordic cooperation on mobility issues. The chapter deals with problem-oriented, but the context of both is of course the genuine success story of the Nordic countries in pioneering regional de-bordering, and later in managing to maintain the uniquely deep Nordic freedom of movement while accessing the much wider Schengen area. The complexity of linkages that produces the unexpected results connected to freedom of movement, experienced by Finnish and Swedish authorities following the migration of the Finnish Roma to Sweden.
