Hungary Parliament to Start Debating NATO Enlargement Next Week

Hungary’s parliament will begin debating the accession of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on March 1, according to a schedule posted on its website on Wednesday.

(Bloomberg) — Hungary’s parliament will begin debating the accession of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on March 1, according to a schedule posted on its website on Wednesday.

The preliminary schedule sees a vote taking place in the week of March 6. Hungary is one of two holdouts to the NATO expansion — the fastest in the alliance’s history — as Turkey has also stalled on admitting the Nordic countries, which were invited to join last June.

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