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Hungary to Vote on Sweden's NATO Bid Next Week


Tue 20 Feb 2024 | 01:44 PM
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Hungary will vote on Sweden's bid to join NATO next Monday, a senior official of the Swedish ruling party, Fidez said.

Hungary is the last holdout on Sweden's bid to join NATO.

Mate Kocsis, Fidesz parliamentary group leader, said that parliament's "session of 26 February 2024 shall include on its agenda the final vote... on the proclamation of the Protocol of Accession of the Kingdom of Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty, which our parliamentary group intends to support."

Last month, Turkey approved the membership of Sweden in NATO, leaving Budapest the only country that stops the Scandinavian country