

NATO Membership: Turkey Clears Finland, Sweden Still Vetoed
Ratification is expected before the Turkish parliament goes into recess in mid-April, bringing Finland one step closer to NATO membership.
Ratification is expected before the Turkish parliament goes into recess in mid-April, bringing Finland one step closer to NATO membership.
Another €2 billion was pledged under EU Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell’s three-step plan to solve the ammunition problem, involving significant production overhaul.
While the move to join NATO without Sweden has overwhelming support and has been long anticipated, there are still some doubts being raised over the decision.
It appears as though no amount of Western well-wishing will speed up any such accession process.
Jens Stoltenberg said Kyiv has a “problem,” but “we have a strategy to tackle that.”
Stoltenberg says NATO’s principal task is to stop the war from spreading westward toward Europe.
Greek Foreign Minister Dendias voiced concern that the fraught state of Greco-Turkish relations might weaken NATO integrity.
Plunged in what looks to be a new cold war, NATO has been making a flurry of manoeuvres, of which the general’s appointment is only the latest.