Finland may go ahead with NATO ratification without Sweden
Finnish parliamentary groups are expected to discuss on Friday when to ratify NATO’s founding treaties, in a move that could lead the country to proceed with membership ahead of neighbouring Sweden, amid growing support among the Finnish public to go it alone.
“Our position on Finland is positive, but it is not positive on Sweden,” President Tayyip Erdogan said last week. On Friday, parliamentary groups in Finland will decide whether parliament should ratify NATO’s founding treaties before it goes into recess on March 3, before a parliamentary election on April 2.
For that to happen, Turkey and Hungary need to ratify the Finnish membership first and NATO to officially invite Finland as a member.
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