THE QUESTION.
After decades of neutrality, Finland and Sweden officially submitted their candidacy for NATO on Wednesday 18 May.
If almost all of the 30 member countries welcomed this decision, Turkey does not hear it that way.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has positioned himself, for the moment, against the accession of the two Nordic countries.
However, for a country to be able to join NATO, the 30 member countries of the Alliance must decide unanimously, after a real entrance examination, whether they accept or refuse the request of the candidate country.
“
It is the rule
”, essential, points out Cyrille Bret, professor at Sciences Po Paris.
By going to the front, Turkey is thus blocking the procedure.
But can she do it indefinitely?
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