Gunner Filip Notander on a combat boat taking part in a military exercise Nordic Response on Norway's northern coast after Sweden became a member of NatoWhen Sweden’s blue-and-yellow is hoisted on Monday as the 32nd flag outside Nato’s Brussels headquarters no one is likely to burst into song: the Nato anthem, adopted in 2018, is a strictly instrumental affair.
Today, two years after Sweden applied and started at times fraught accession talks with Turkey and Hungary, Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson has taken over from Crosby in praising the alliance – though not yet in song.Joe Biden’s bipartisan gloves are off: this is how he plans to campaign “Today is a truly historic day,” he said on Thursday in Washington, after officially signing up Sweden. “We will defend freedom together with the countries closest to us – both in terms of geography, culture and values.”
Anders, a 72 year-old, said: “I find it good, it makes things more secure for my children and grandchildren.” After lowering defence budgets and mothballing infrastructure in the last decades, Sweden is moving – and spending – fast to meet its Nato membership commitment to spend the equivalent of 2 per cent of its gross domestic on security and defence. Overall defence spending this year will be Kr 119 billion , almost double its 2020 budget, and is expected to take Sweden across the 2 per cent threshold.
Saab CEO Michael Johansson has acknowledged in public the security benefits for Sweden are matched by financial benefits for his company of joining Nato’s “inner circle”.
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