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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Russian Aggression Prompts Finnish-Swedish Military Pact

FA-18 HornetFinland and Sweden are looking into pooling their defense resources as the crisis in Ukraine shifts the Nordic states’ military-policy focus to protecting their home turf from participating in international peacekeeping.

The countries yesterday agreed to conduct a study by October to find ways to ensure the same money spent on arms will stretch a longer way.

Cooperation will begin next year with a focus on the period from 2016 onward, according to Finnish Defense Minister Carl Haglund and his Swedish counterpart Karin Enstroem.

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