Sweden’s accession to the Nato alliance was far from a smooth process ... Unlike Finland, Sweden does not share a border with Russia. Many Swedes wanted to maintain the country’s traditional ...

Nato member Turkey has agreed to support ... a crackdown under amendments to Swedish and Finnish law. If Sweden and Finland do become members, it will end over 200 years of Swedish non-alignment.

After more than 18 months of delays, Sweden will become a Nato member as Hungary has ... several former Warsaw Pact countries switched sides and became Nato members. Nato does not have its own armed ...

“Russia is the principal threat to Sweden, and it constitutes a threat to the whole [NATO] alliance.” “Right now, Russia's freedom of activity is limited because its ground forces are bogged down in ...

saying it would not aid European stability Russia has warned Finland and Sweden against joining Nato, arguing the move would not bring stability to Europe. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told ...

And Sweden had no pilots scrambling up to meet the Russian planes. Instead, NATO planes, from the Baltic Air Patrol, had to do it. This was embarrassing to Sweden. Three months earlier ...

Read more below. In your 2022 article “Will Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Deepen the Alliance’s Problems?” you argue that the two countries bring more financial and military assets to the alliance ...

A weakened economy, interest cut delays, continued struggles for the Swedish krona and potential security issues are the ...

Ankara does not believe ... always advocated NATO’s expansion and strengthening. We are not slowing down the process of admission of new members to NATO. Finland and Sweden have lifted the ...

although NATO partner countries include Australia and New Zealand, as well as European non-members Sweden and Finland. Asked if a country such as Brazil could become a member, Stoltenberg said ...

After months of stalling, the Hungarian parliament will discuss the support of the Swedish and Finnish NATO ... or to do someone a favour. But I hope he doesn’t,” she said. Sweden ganged ...

Analyst Nicholas Danforth says such conclusions are premature. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decided to tell the Turkish parliament to greenlight Sweden's NATO membership, prompting a ...