The Hungarian Parliament, dominated by the party of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, ratified on Monday March 27 Finland's accession to NATO after months of procrastination, bringing the Nordic country a little closer to the Atlantic Alliance.
A large majority of MPs (182 out of the 199 seats) approved Helsinki's entry into NATO, while the case of Sweden will be discussed "
later
".
Finland had applied to join the Alliance at the same time as Sweden, last May, as a direct result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Finland, subject to forced neutrality by Moscow after its war with the Soviet Union during the Second World War, shares the longest European border (1340 km) with Russia, behind Ukraine.
