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Non-aligned no longer: Sweden embraces Nato

While Swedes believe it will make them safer Turkey’s grip over the alliance worries some

So there it is, said Erik Helmerson in Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm): “One hundred and fifty years of Swedish neutrality has been replaced by something new.” In a surprising – and very welcome – development last week, Turkey finally dropped its opposition to Sweden’s accession to Nato, so paving the way for it to join the 31-member military alliance.

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