Finland joined in April 2023. Sweden's membership is being discussed at the NATO summit this week. As NATO members, the nations "agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or ...

Nearly two years after it requested to join, Sweden officially became NATO’s newest member Thursday, increasing the alliance’s geographical and military reach. Over more than 70 years ...

Turkey decided in July 2023 to support Sweden's application, according to The Associated Press. The addition of Sweden would reinforce the eastern region of the alliance and increase NATO's ...

The majority of NATO nations—19, by the alliance's own count in July 2023—are still failing to spend 2 percent of GDP on their militaries, despite having agreed the target at the 2014 Wales ...

This will change Ukraine’s membership path from a two-step process to a one-step process,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters Tuesday. The Membership Action Plan (MAP ...

NATO leaders pose for a group photo after the ... allow the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau to draw legislative maps, a dramatic reversal after years of opposing such an approach to ...

Known in NATO parlance as a MAP, the action plan involves a tailor-made package of advice, assistance and practical support for countries preparing to join NATO. Bosnia, for example, is currently ...

David Brennan is Newsweek's Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts from London with a focus on NATO, the European ... Ukraine's long-awaited 2023 counteroffensive was ...

He will also be aware that there is no chance that Ukraine will join NATO in the foreseeable future ... A glance at the map shows why. Located between Romania and Ukraine, and with a dubious ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he had put forward a package that included the removal of the requirement for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) - a list of political, economic and ...

In addition to the clear promise of membership, more promises of weapons and the ability to skip the MAP, Kyiv’s relationship with NATO has been significantly upgraded with the NATO-Ukraine ...