This week intensive meetings of the Swedish NATO operation

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Stockholm today to take part in the informal meeting of EU Defense Ministers, which will take place on Wednesday.

Before that, on Tuesday, he will meet with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and a number of party leaders who are invited to answer questions about Sweden’s accession process to NATO. Only parties positive about Sweden’s membership in NATO were invited, so the Green Party and the Left Party would not attend.

“wants respect”

On Tuesday, Parliament Speaker Andreas Norlin, as well as a number of Riksdag members, will meet with a Hungarian delegation in Stockholm to discuss Hungary’s ratification of Sweden’s request for NATO. Hungary, along with Turkey, is the only NATO country that has not yet ratified Sweden and Finland, and in March Hungary will decide whether or not to accept the two memberships.

We want respect. Sweden and Finland have both criticized Hungary for its lack of the rule of law, says one TT Hungarian participant.

Sweden and Finland meet Turkey

Talks with Turkey are also scheduled to resume on Thursday. Then Sweden’s chief negotiator, Oskar Steenström, and his Finnish and Turkish counterparts met in Brussels to agree on how the three countries would abide by the agreement the parties signed in Madrid.

However, a decisive decision is not expected.

– I think it’s good that you have meetings. But I don’t think that would significantly change the process, Kale Håkansson, a professor of political science at the Foreign Policy Institute, tells MorgonStudion.

On the same day, the government also moves forward with a new bill on anti-terrorism, which is then handed over to the Swedish parliament, despite criticism from the legislature. The plan is for the law to go into effect on June 1.