Hungarian ruling party Fidesz has set a new date for the ratification of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, hvg reports.. hu. The final vote on government proposals on the two countries' application for NATO membership, according to the new plans, will take place on March 31.

This decision was made at a meeting of the profile committee of the Parliament on Thursday afternoon.. The publications participating in the meeting also reported that Gyorgy Balla, deputy chairman of the Fidesz faction, explained a number of postponements by saying that “Brussels is lying like a pig”.

Earlier it was reported that the vote on NATO will be held on March 20. Subsequently, it was again delayed for a week..

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The government of Viktor Orban repeatedly promised to ratify the applications, but kept delaying the decision. Hungary stalled for months, trying to use NATO expansion as leverage to confront the European Union over more than $30 billion in blocked funds.

Today, March 17, Turkey began ratifying Finland's membership in NATO.. As for Sweden, Erdogan remains relentless.

What Turkey, Sweden and Finland agreed on during the joint talks on March 9? What are the chances of Stockholm and Helsinki that the Turkish parliament will approve their applications before the start of the NATO summit in Vilnius? Or at least until the end of the year? The answers to these questions are in the article by Vladimir Kravchenko “Earthquake diplomacy: will Sweden and Finland be allowed into NATO”?