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21-589: (Redirected from Nordic Centre ) Nordic centre or Nordic center may refer to: Nordic agrarian parties , also known as the Nordic Centre parties, a set of political parties in Nordic countries which align themselves with centrism and farming Nordic Center Youth , a youth organization consisting of several such parties' youth organizations Nordic Centre in Shanghai ,
42-708: A diet ( / ˈ d aɪ . ə t / DY -ət ) is a formal deliberative assembly . The term is used historically for deliberative assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire ), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan , or the German Bundestag ,
63-405: A false etymology , reflected in the spelling change replacing ae with e , the word "diet" came to be associated with Latin dies , "day". It came to be used in postclassical Europe in the sense of "an assembly" because of its use for the work of an assembly meeting on a daily basis or a given day of the time period, and hence for the assembly itself. The association with dies is reflected in
84-946: A German-language Prussian diet Landtag was held in the lands of Royal Prussia , a province of Poland in personal union with the king of Poland . The Croatian word for a legislative assembly is sabor (from the verb sabrati se , "to assemble"); in historic contexts it is often translated with "diet" in English, as in "the Diet of Dalmatia " ( Dalmatinski sabor ), "the Croatian Diet" ( Hrvatski sabor ), "the Hungarian-Croatian Diet" ( Ugarsko-hrvatski sabor ), or Diet of Bosnia ( Bosansko-hercegovački sabor ). The Diet of Hungary , customarily called together every three years in Székesfehérvár , Buda or Pressburg ,
105-596: A joint project between Fudan University and several Nordic universities The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning , a cultural heritage initiative Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nordic centre . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nordic_centre&oldid=1104186097 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
126-456: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nordic agrarian parties The Nordic agrarian parties , also referred to as Scandinavian agrarian parties or agrarian liberal parties , are agrarian political parties that belong to a political tradition particular to the Nordic countries . Positioning themselves in the centre of
147-845: Is the party most opposed to European Union membership, having maintained that position since the 1972 referendum . The Icelandic Progressives are also opposed to membership, while the Danish Venstre is in favour of the European Union and Denmark 's entry into the Eurozone . While originally supported by farmers, the parties have adapted to declining rural populations by diversifying their political base. The Finnish Centre Party receives only 10% of its support from farmers, while Denmark's Venstre received only 7% of their votes from farmers in 1998. Similarly, in Sweden, between 60-70% of farmers voted for
168-641: The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the Liberal International . Historically farmers' parties, a declining farmer population after the Second World War made them broaden their scope to other issues and sections of society. At this time three of them renamed themselves to Centre Party , with the Finnish Centre Party being the last to do so, in 1965. In the modern period,
189-677: The German language 's use of Tagung (meeting) and -tag , meaning "day", as in Montag —Monday, and also "parliament", "council", or other legislative chamber, as in Bundestag or Reichstag for national parliaments, and Landtag for regional assemblies. In this sense, it commonly refers to the Imperial Diet assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire : After the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466,
210-498: The Norwegian Centre Party and Icelandic Progressive Party are opposed to economic liberalisation , the others, most notably the Danish Venstre and Swedish Centerpartiet , are pro-market and put a heavy emphasis on economic growth and productivity . Because of this divide, Venstre are described in some academic literature as the separate 'half-sister' of the Nordic agrarian parties. Nonetheless, all of
231-472: The political spectrum , but fulfilling roles distinctive to Nordic countries, they remain hard to classify by conventional political ideology. These parties are non- Socialist and typically combine a commitment to small businesses , rural issues and political decentralisation , and, at times, scepticism towards the European Union . The parties have divergent views on the free market and environmentalism . Internationally, they are most commonly aligned to
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#1733094426819252-499: The Center Party up until the 1988 elections , but support for the party from the traditional agricultural support base thereafter declined, and today the Center Party's base of support is mostly middle-class voters who do not engage in farming. The current Nordic agrarian parties are: Historical Nordic agrarian parties include: Similar agrarian parties outside the Nordic countries are/were: Diet (assembly) In politics ,
273-508: The Federal Diet. The term (also in the nutritional sense) might be derived from Medieval Latin dieta , meaning both "parliamentary assembly" and "daily food allowance", from earlier Latin diaeta , possibly from the Greek διαιτησία (= arbitration), or transcribing Classical Greek δίαιτα diaita , meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet", "regular (daily) work". Through
294-577: The Nordic and Baltic region, such as the Farmer–Citizen Movement in the Netherlands. The Conservative Party of Norway maintained a notable agrarian faction as late as the 1960s, when Alv Kjøs was serving as the party chairman from 1954 to 1962. Jens Bratlie served as PM from 1912-1913 and supported some agrarian policies like emergency storage for grain. The parties' attitudes to the free market and economic liberalism are mixed. Whereas
315-625: The Swedish Riksdag of the Estates . The agrarian movement thus precedes the labour movement by centuries in Iceland , Sweden , Denmark , Finland , and Norway . The first of the parties, Venstre in Denmark, was formed as a liberal, anti-tax farmers' party in 1870, uniting various groups of bondevenner (friends of the farmers) which had existed since the introduction of democracy in 1849. The rest of
336-606: The end of Soviet rule in the Baltic countries , the Estonian Centre Party (established in 1991) and Lithuanian Centre Union (1993) were modelled explicitly on the Swedish example. The Latvian Farmers' Union of the post-communist era views the Nordic agrarian parties as models, too, aiming to be a centrist catch-all party instead of a pure single-interest party of farmers. In recent years, rural interest parties emerged outside of
357-714: The existing Lantmanna Party and its splinter groups. As the Scandinavian farming population declined, the parties moved towards becoming catch-all centrist parties by capturing some of the urban electorate. The Swedish Agrarian Party renamed itself to the Centre Party in 1958. The Norwegian and Finnish parties adopted the same name in 1959 and 1965 respectively. According to a 2022 study by Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, farmers' parties and farmer representatives had strong incentives to resist welfare state expansion, and farmer MPs consistently opposed generous welfare policies. After
378-617: The main agrarian parties are the Centre Party in Sweden , Venstre in Denmark , Centre Party in Finland , Centre Party in Norway and Progressive Party in Iceland . Compared to continental Europe, the peasants in the Nordic countries historically had an unparalleled degree of political influence. They were not only independent, but also represented as the fourth estate in the national diets , like in
399-628: The parties define themselves as 'non-socialist', while some also distance themselves from the label of ' bourgeois ' (borgerlig) , which is traditionally reserved for the conservative and liberal parties. Most of the parties have traditionally sat on the Eurosceptic side in their respective countries. However, for the most part, they hold these positions due to particular policies, with an emphasis on whether they believe European policies to be better or worse for rural communities. The Centre Party in Norway
420-467: The parties emerged in the early 20th century, spurred by the introduction of universal suffrage and proportional representation across the region. Finland's Agrarian League was the first to be created in 1906, followed by the Agrarian Party in Norway in 1915. The Icelandic Progressive Party was founded in 1916 as a merger of two agrarian parties. Sweden's Agrarian Party, founded in 1921, emerged from
441-693: Was also called "Diéta" in the Habsburg Empire before the 1848 revolution . The Riksdag of the Estates was the diet of the four estates of Sweden , from the 15th century until 1866. The Diet of Finland was the successor to the Riksdag of the Estates in the Grand Duchy of Finland , from 1809 to 1906. The Swiss legislature was the Tagsatzung (French: Diète ) before the Federal Assembly replaced it in
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