New Initiative: Swedish-Finnish Commission Preparing for NATO Membership

Mats Johansson, chairman of the Stockholm Free World Forum, and Ambassador Pauli Järvenpää of the ICDS in Tallinn have made a common effort to launch a new initiative; a joint Swedish-Finnish commission preparing for NATO membership.

On June 4th, their article was published in Helsingin Sanomat, a major Finnish newspaper, and referred to in the debate before the Finnish President’s meeting at Gullranda. The English translation can be found here.

A Swedish version has been published by the Stockholm Free World Forum here.

The initiative was mentioned in an article by Edward Lucas, Senior Editor at the Economist, in Svenska Dagbladet.