the party has been against sweden joining nato, so the indications are that they will be changing their policy on that. it s not every day you see that apologies for the noise there. but in terms of finland, we think in the coming days, there will be a decision. the way it all works, assuming there are no major stumbling blocks in the form of turkish opposition, the thinking is, when there s a big nato summit in madrid, that would be the moment at which the countries join. so, that s how it s looking for now. interesting that the finnish president spoke to vladimir putin and explained to him why finland wants to join, he says because of the attack on ukraine, but also the way that vladimir putin has suggested that no more country should be allowed to join nato, has suggested that no more countries should be allowed to join nato, and the finnish president is suggesting it is not acceptable, is suggesting that s not acceptable, that individual countries have sovereign responsibilities
you say that, apologies for the noise there. but in terms of finland, we think in the coming days, there will be a decision. the way it all works, assuming there are no major stumbling blocks in the form of turkish opposition, the thinking is, when there is a big nato summit in madrid, that would be the moment at which the countries join. so that is how it is looking for now. interesting that the finnish president spoke to vladimir putin and explained why finland wants to join, putin and explained why finland wants tojoin, he putin and explained why finland wants to join, he says because of the attack on ukraine, but also the way that vladimir putin has suggested that no more country should be allowed to join nato, suggested that no more country should be allowed tojoin nato, and the finnish president suggesting it is not acceptable, that individual countries have sovereign decision making in this sort of process. yeah, it did sound like a wonderful understatement, he said he would tel
of turkish opposition, the thinking is, when there is a big nato summit in madrid, that would be the moment at which the countries join. so that is how it is looking for now. interesting that the finnish president spoke to vladimir putin and explained why finland wants to join, he says because of the attack on ukraine, but also the way that vladimir putin has suggested that no more country should be allowed to join nato, and the finnish president suggesting it is not acceptable, that individual countries have sovereign decision making in this sort of process. yeah, it did sound like a wonderful understatement, he said he would tell president putin that quite a lot of things have changed and that that explains why finland is now felt it needed to join nato. one would love, i m sure, to be a fly on the wall for that particular phone conversation, it must have been an interesting one. it is a paradox, given that the war was apparently about preventing nato
for finnish and swedish applications and accession? well, interesting, this. over the weekend, sweden in particular, the governing party there, the social democrats, they have been meeting, the prime minister and other figures within the party have been talking about whether this is a good thing for sweden, because traditionally the party has been against sweden joining nato, so the indications are that they will be changing their policy on that. it is not every day you see that apologies for the noise there. but in terms of finland, we think in the coming days, there will be a decision. the way it all works, assuming there are no major stumbling blocks in the form of turkish opposition, the thinking is, when there is a big nato summit in madrid, that would be the moment at which the countries join. so that is how it is looking for now. interesting that the finnish
over the weekend, sweden in particular, the governing party there, the social democrats, they have been meeting, the prime minister and other figures within the party have been talking about whether this is a good thing for sweden, because traditionally the party has been against sweden joining nato, so the indications are that they will be changing their policy on that. it is not every day you see that apologies for the noise there. but in terms of finland, we think in the coming days, there will be a decision. the way it all works, assuming there are no major stumbling blocks in the form of turkish opposition, the thinking is, when there is a big nato summit in madrid, that would be the moment at which the countries join. so that is how it is looking for now. interesting that the finnish president spoke to vladimir putin and explained why finland wants to join, he says because of the attack on ukraine, but also the way that vladimir putin has suggested that no more country