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NATO in 2024. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
On 4 July 2023, Hungary announced that they would act together with Turkey on Sweden's NATO membership. [7] In July 2023, Hungary announced that it would fully support Sweden's membership process after Turkey's objections were removed. [8] In July 2023, Hungary announced that its vote on Sweden's membership application was postponed until the ...
Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic became NATO members in 1999, amid much debate within NATO itself. NATO then formalized the process of joining the organization with "Membership Action Plans", which aided the accession of seven Central and Eastern Europe countries shortly before the 2004 Istanbul summit : Bulgaria , Estonia , Latvia ...
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
English: Map showing the current affiliations of European countries with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Non-European NATO areas, such as the United States, Canada, Greenland (autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark), and French Guiana (overseas department and region of France), are not included on the map.
Hungary has been a member of the United Nations since December 1955 and a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, the WTO, the World Bank, the AIIB and the IMF. Hungary took on the presidency of the Council of the European Union for half a year in 2011 and the next will be in 2024.
NATO's "area of responsibility", within which attacks on member states are eligible for an Article 5 response, is defined under Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty to include member territory in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the North Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.
The accession of Finland last year and soon Sweden, which has not been at war since 1814, is the most significant expansion of NATO since it took in members from eastern Europe after the Soviet ...