Both countries will be able to present applications to join NATO at a meeting in Madrid in June.
Andersson told Swedish outlet SvD that her party, the Swedish Social Democrats, had made a decision on"the NATO issue," with party informants telling the outlet that the plan is to submit its application at the June 29 NATO meeting in Madrid. Any application would require 75% support in the legislature.
"This is an important time in history," said Andersson, speaking alongside her Finnish counterpart on Wednesday."The security landscape has completely changed."Sweden's Priime Minister Magdalena Andersson announces during a digital press conference that Sweden will lift nearly all Covid-19 restrictions on February 9th, in Stockholm.
But Finish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said that the country will decide on NATO membership in"weeks rather than months" during Wednesday's press conference, according to Euro News. "The difference between being a [NATO] partner and being a member is very clear, and will remain so. There's no other way to have security guarantees than under NATO's deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by NATO's article five," Marin said. She called NATO"an important part of Europe's political and security architecture."
Marin stressed that there was no set timeline but that"everything has changed with Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
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