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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Giorgio Cafiero

Finland’s long-held neutrality is over. What next?

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, left, hands over his nation's accession document to United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels [Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP]

Less than a year after first applying for membership, Finland became the latest country to join NATO earlier this week – and given the Nordic nation’s history of non-alignment, its accession is significant.

The Western military alliance’s frontier with Russia has grown more than 800 miles with the addition of its 31st member.

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