Turkey is also promising to move on Sweden’s alliance application.

Turkey is also promising to move on Sweden’s alliance application.

If you want to join NATO, come and talk to me — that’s Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s latest message to his Swedish counterpart.

“Today I sent an invitation letter to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson … for a visit to Hungary to negotiate on Sweden’s NATO accession,” Orbán tweeted today.

Orbán’s remarks come amid growing signs that Sweden is possibly making inroads persuading the alliance’s last two holdouts — Hungary and Turkey — 20 months after it submitted a bid to join NATO and breaking its centuries-old tradition of neutrality thanks to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m glad it’s moving forward (albeit glacially), but Turkey and Hungary are going to be the poster children for bad-faith actors in the context of both NATO and the EU for a very long time after this. Watching this constantly stall for over a year and a half - specifically due to absolute nonsense objections from those two - has been excruciating.