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A Swedish NATO Membership and Its Constitutional Barriers

  • Joachim Åhman

Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

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After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the debate about a possible NATO membership in Sweden has been intense. The ruling Social Democratic Party was against a membership for a long time, but on Sunday 15 May it changed its position. Now everything points to a Swedish NATO accession and it seems likely that the constitutional barriers for that are surprisingly low: parliamentary approval with a simple majority vote.

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