After the launch of large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, the authorities of European countries started thinking about strengthening their security and defence. This is especially true of those nations that were previously neutral, namely Sweden and Finland. Many years of non-alignment were justified for them, but now those times seem to be a thing of the past.
According to Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre, the actions of Finland and Sweden towards joining NATO will hardly change the position of other non-NATO countries such as Austria or Switzerland, as they are in a different geopolitical environment.
