Finland has been given the green light to join Nato after the Turkish parliament voted to approve its membership. All 276 lawmakers present on Thursday voted in favour of the Nordic country’s ...
Finland will now be formally admitted into NATO at its next summit in July in Lithuania. Earlier, Turkey had delayed Finland's bid to join the West's defensive alliance for months, complaining the ...
Full unanimity is required to admit new members into the 30-member alliance, and Turkey and Hungary were the last two NATO members to ratify Finland’s accession. Sweden’s bid to join the ...
Therefore, Finland has obtained legal grounds for joining the alliance. Turkey was the remaining NATO member to approve Helsinki’s bid. Earlier, the process was also delayed by Hungary ...
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday called on Ankara to drop its opposition to Sweden's bid to join the US-led defence alliance, hoping Stockholm's accession would be finalised "as soon as possible" ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Turkey's parliament on Friday to vote on Finland's application to joint the NATO defence alliance. "We have decided to start the protocol of Finland's ...
Officials from Turkey, Sweden and Finland will meet in the week of June 12 for further discussions on Sweden's NATO ...
Sweden’s bid to join NATO remains stalled by opposition from Turkey and Hungary, even weeks after both nations finally approved Finland’s ... to wait until Turkey approves Sweden’s ...
Full unanimity is required to admit new members into the 30-member alliance, and Turkey and Hungary were the last two Nato members to ratify Finland’s accession. Sweden’s bid to join the ...
The vote came after Hungary’s government frustrated allies in NATO and the European ... of the alliance had ratified Finland’s bid. With Hungary’s approval, Turkey is now the only one ...
The vote came after Hungary’s government frustrated allies in NATO and the European Union by repeatedly postponing the measure for months after nearly all other members of the alliance had ratified ...
