Finnish and Swedish membership in NATO brings the two countries even closer together

Finnish and Swedish membership in NATO brings the two countries even closer together

Byprojectinresponse.com

by Hanna Ojanen, Research Director, Tampere University & inRESPONSE Researcher Finland’s newly elected President Alexander Stubb recently paid his first state visit to Stockholm, as per tradition for Finnish presidents. This time a lot has changed: now the two countries are in NATO. Understandably, NATO was one of the central topics during the visit. In his…

Will the European Union Become Militarily Independent by 2030?

Will the European Union Become Militarily Independent by 2030?

ByHenrique Monteiro

by Henrique Monteiro, PhD Candidate at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & inRESPONSE Researcher Europe is at a crossroads. The post-Cold War overlapping institutional set-up that created the identity of the European Union and safeguarded its collective security for multiple decades is being exceptionally challenged. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine raised security concerns that have…