Both Finland and Sweden asked to join NATO in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. After accession talks with NATO, Finland was approved to join in April. Sweden was made an invitee and was able to ...

Finland, along with its neighbor Sweden, applied to join NATO in May 2022, reversing decades-long policies of maintaining military neutrality on the global stage. Russia's ongoing, unprovoked war ...

It follows Finland, which entered NATO last year. The two nations applied for membership at the same time in May 2022, but Sweden's admission was opposed by Turkey and Hungary. Turkey decided in ...

In 2022, Sweden announced it would spend $163 million to ramp up its forces on the island, including expanding barracks to house more troops. Sweden’s accession to NATO means an increased ...

A new map showcasing the European countries in ... Sweden applied to join NATO in May 2022, but new members require the approval of all existing members, and this made things tricky.

After nearly two years of negotiations, Sweden follows Finland, which was accepted into NATO last year. The countries applied to join at the same time in May 2022, but Hungary and Turkey both ...

"At the 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid on 29 June, Allied Leaders agreed to invite both countries to become members of NATO. Together with Sweden, Finland completed accession talks at NATO ...

David Brennan is Newsweek's Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts from London with a focus on NATO, the European ... draft following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

This chart shows the estimated military spending of NATO countries in 2014 and 2022 and share of GDP ... More (in billion constant 2015 U.S. dollars). Western European nations were most likely to ...