Finland to apply for NATO membership on Wednesday
Finland will most likely send its application to join NATO on Wednesday next week, according to Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. Haavisto says the Finns will…
Finland will most likely send its application to join NATO on Wednesday next week, according to Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. Haavisto says the Finns will…
Norway’s Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (AP) is present at a NATO meeting in Berlin. She believes an agreement can be reached with Turkey on the…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a NATO country, says he is not a supporter of NATO membership for Sweden and Finland. The Turkish president…
It is Russia’s fault that NATO is expanding eastwards, Erna Solberg (H) said on Thursday. Norway must support Finland in the time before they are…
Finland should join as a full member of NATO, according to its President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin. Niinistö and Marin presented their…
76% of people polled in a new poll in Finland say they support NATO membership. Only 12% of those surveyed say they are opposed to…
The leaders of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are asking NATO to strengthen its presence in the Baltics in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine….
Sweden’s governing party, the Social Democrats, states that it will decide on the party’s position on a possible Swedish NATO membership by May 24. The…
If Finland and Sweden choose to join NATO, Norway will welcome them, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (AP) said on Wednesday. “We would like to…
The Russian government has again warned Sweden and Finland against joining NATO. The newspaper Aftonbladet writes that spokesperson Maria Zakharova in the Russian Ministry of…
Nearly six out of ten Swedes believe the country should become a member of NATO. In a new poll, a record 57% said “yes” to…
Russia warns of consequences if Sweden and Finland join NATO. The issue of NATO membership has been at the top of the security policy agenda…
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (AP) says he has talked to his Swedish and Finnish colleagues about how to combine NATO membership with being neighbors…
Prime Minister Sanna Marin says that Finland will decide on a NATO application within a few weeks, not months. She hopes Sweden and Finland will…
According to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, a Swedish delegation traveled to Finland last week to hold a meeting with the neighboring country and discuss the…
A Swedish delegation traveled to Finland last week to hold a meeting with the neighboring country on a possible future NATO membership. Minister of Finance…
Norway is extending its increased contribution to the NATO force in Lithuania by three months due to the tense situation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine….
Russia believes that Finnish and Swedish NATO membership will not contribute to European stability. “We have repeatedly said that the NATO alliance remains a tool…
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States expects Finland and Sweden to apply to join NATO this summer, the British newspaper The Times writes….
NATO is preparing plans to deploy a permanent full-scale force on the Alliance’s eastern flank, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says. In an interview with the…