The leaders of the NATO member states will gather on July 11-12 in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania, to discuss the most urgent issues, including, above all, the strategy for further assistance to Ukraine and the process of formally incorporating Sweden into the structures of the Alliance. The second issue raises the most questions, as it is related to the continued failure to ratify the Swedish application on the part of Türkiye and Hungary.
For the first time, Sweden has initiated legal proceedings against an individual charged with seeking to financially bolster the terrorist group, the PKK.
The situation is exacerbated by inflation that remains well above government targets, stagnant wages that hem in consumption and a downturn of the housing market.