Expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has become a major focus of Parliament’s foreign affairs committee as it tours several European countries to study the impact of the war in Ukraine, the committee chair said in an interview in Warsaw Sunday.
The committee members started their journey in Sweden last week and will end in Finland—two countries that are in the final stages of joining NATO.
“We think that the eastern flank really has to be strengthened,” said committee chair Ali Ehsassi.
Canada was the first NATO ally to approve Sweden and Finland’s bids to join the organization, doing so through a unanimous vote in Parliament. The countries applied to join the military alliance just months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago….