Neither Sweden, nor its neighbor Finland, are currently members of NATO — a throwback to both countries' histories of military neutrality and complex relationswith Moscow. Since the end of the Cold War, Helsinki and Stockholm cooperated more closely with the military alliance and debated potential membership. In late April, the Finnish Foreign Ministry published an independent report exploring the consequences of NATO membership for Helsinki. The report's central finding was that the Nordic duo should stay together: either by both joining the alliance or abstaining.
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