The Swedish government’s race to join NATO in June

HELSINKI – The Stockholm tabloid Expressen summed up a complex geopolitical controversy in one insightful headline. “Please, dear Finland, take us to NATO.” Wednesday the joint press conference of Magdalena Andersson e Sanna Marin, the two young prime ministers of Sweden and Finland, went around the world. The two Scandinavian countries that have always mirrored each other in neutrality, which have a tradition of very close military collaboration, could undertake the path of joining NATO together.