Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine has prompted a slew of difficult questions for a NATO alliance long confident of economic and military superiority over its historical eastern adversary.
Finland became NATO's 31st member in April after the Turkish parliament ratified its request, but Turkey has held off approving Sweden’s bid. Turkey’s government accuses Sweden of being too ...
Finland became NATO’s 31st member earlier this year after Turkey’s parliament ratified its bid. Hungary, the only other NATO holdout on Sweden, has not announced when the country’s ...
Swedish foreign minister Tobias Billström took part in the meeting in Brussels after the country became Nato's 32nd ally last month. Finland and Sweden applied to join simultaneously in May 2022, but ...
Moscow warns over Finland military drills as US to send weapons to Kyiv ‘this week’ - The US Senate has passed £49bn in ...
Finland’s right-wing government announced ... all of whose countries are now NATO members. After Sweden formally joined NATO last month, Russia is now confronted with hostile adversaries on ...
Aside from the Russian missiles issue, it received a barrage of criticism for blocking Finland’s and Sweden’s accessions to NATO (accepting new members must be approved by all states in the alliance).
In a recent development, Sweden has joined Amsterdam-based independent VC firm NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) as a Limited Partner (LP), aligning with 23 other nations to invest in technology and science.
The political posture of Sweden and Finland, as well as that of Switzerland and Austria ... They should be strengthened so as to make them able to keep the peace in their respective areas: NATO in the ...
Hungary’s decision paved the way for the second expansion of NATO’s ranks in a year after both Sweden and Finland applied ... to give its backing since Turkey ratified the request in January.
It is the first Nato member to apply. The move “represents a new chapter in Turkey’s quest for a robust presence in space research and exploration”, the Istanbul-based Turkiye Newspaper wrote.