Turkey is also promising to move on Sweden’s alliance application.
If you want to join NATO, come and talk to me — that’s Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s latest message to his Swedish counterpart.
“Today I sent an invitation letter to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson … for a visit to Hungary to negotiate on Sweden’s NATO accession,” Orbán tweeted today.
Orbán’s remarks come amid growing signs that Sweden is possibly making inroads persuading the alliance’s last two holdouts — Hungary and Turkey — 20 months after it submitted a bid to join NATO and breaking its centuries-old tradition of neutrality thanks to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
As a Swede I just wish Ulf sent a sms to Jens:
Ok guys, we tried our best but we didn’t succeed. We refuse to let our security be a pawn in some silly game.
Ps. Joe, your kids are misbehaving. Our offer to help you guys still stands. Call us when they start to behave.
…and then just stopped answering calls from Jens, Erdogan and Orban for a week or two…