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Sweden has been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 7 March 2024. [1]Before applying for NATO membership, Sweden had maintained a policy of neutrality in military affairs since the Napoleonic Wars, after which Sweden adopted a policy of "non-alignment in peace and neutrality in war".
With Sweden following Finland into NATO, President Vladimir Putin has effectively achieved the very thing he sought to avert when he launched his war in Ukraine - an expansion of the alliance ...
Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its last hurdle when Hungary gave its go-ahead Monday to let the Nordic country into the alliance. It brought an end to ...
Hungary’s parliament overwhelmingly approved Sweden’s bid to join NATO on ... 2024 at 7:36 PM ... just six rejected Sweden’s accession. “Today is a historic day,” Kristersson said on X ...
March 7, 2024 at 11:55 AM. ... which serves as the treaty depositary for NATO. Sweden joining NATO was scarcely conceivable a little more than two years ago. The country remained neutral in both ...
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
This remarkably long era of nonalignment is coming to a close as Sweden joins NATO. For the next two centuries, Sweden embraced a policy of neutrality, refusing to take sides in wars or join any ...
Turkey and Sweden finally came to an understanding in early 2024, allowing Sweden to become the 32nd member of the alliance on 7 March 2024. [ 108 ] According to the Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu , Finland's accession to NATO significantly increased the risk of a wider conflict in Europe.