Sweden and Finland: urgently joining NATO?

Status: 05/10/2022 03:29 am

Sweden and Finland’s ruling parties want to decide this week on their NATO membership. Admission ceremonies will be completed within two weeks.

Sweden and Finland join NATO very soon If the two countries decide to join NATO, there could be only two weeks between the signing of the application and the admission protocol, a NATO official in Brussels said. One day is enough for one country to negotiate for annexation.

“We will not wait for the Madrid summit to take a decision,” the official said, citing speculation that the two countries could announce the decision at a meeting of heads of state and government in the Spanish capital at the end of June. .

Once the accession process is complete, the access protocols will have to be ratified by 30 more NATO countries. Although this may take several months, member states are expected to act swiftly in the face of Russian threats against member states. In Germany, Bundestag approval is required.

This week’s results

Before that, however, the Finnish and Swedish parliaments must decide on the Internet. For the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a majority of the population has voted in favor of their countries becoming members of the Security Council. In Finland, popularity is currently 76 percent among those surveyed, according to a poll conducted by broadcaster Yle.

Consent therefore reaches all ages and social classes. Only twelve percent of the population is against it, and eleven percent are undecided. In March, the response was still 62 percent. Finland’s President Sauli Ninisto has announced that he intends to announce his position by Thursday. The ruling Social Democrats want to announce their decision on Saturday.

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A day later, on Sunday, the Swedish Social Democrats also wanted to explain their position on joining NATO. So far they have always been against it, but last week Prime Minister and party leader Magdalena Anderson announced that the conflict in Ukraine was forcing her country to reconsider the issue. He described Russia’s attack on Ukraine as a “deep, sharp turning point”. If the ruling party decides to join NATO now, the path will be clear because then there will be a broad parliamentary majority.

Known allies

Sweden and Finland have been neutral for decades, but there has been intense debate in both countries about joining NATO in Ukraine after the war of Russian occupation – and eventually public opinion has changed. However, those countries were already close partners in the military alliance. NATO forces and Swedish and Finnish forces have carried out repeated maneuvers in the past.

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