New leadership, new structure: NATO is repositioning itself in the summer. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is considered the top candidate to succeed Jens Stoltenberg.
Hungary recently spoke out against it. New members Sweden and Finland are supposed to be given equal responsibility. The military high command “Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe’, abbreviated Shape, is still based in Mons, Belgium. Three army groups would be installed on NATO’s eastern flank. These will allegedly initially be run from the Turkish city of Izmir, Wiesbaden and the Finnish capital Helsinki.