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The authorities of Finland have launched the process of evaluating the consequences of the country's possible entry into NATO. This was reported on the website of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The former Finnish ambassador in Sweden Matsu Bergkvist, the head of the Finnish Institute of International Relations Teye Tiilikainen, the former Office of Finland in Russia and Germany Rene Nyberg and the chairman of the International Strategic Research Institute and the Geneva Center for Security Policy Francois Aisbur were instructed to prepare a report on this issue. They must complete their work by spring.

The Party of Center, who won the parliamentary elections in April 2015 , opposed Finland to join NATO . According to a survey conducted in January 2015, only 26 percent of the Finns would approve the country's possible entry into the Alliance. 43 percent of 32 induced would come against.

On April 10, 2015, the defense ministers of the five countries of Northern Europe - Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland - published a joint declaration of the need to counteract Russia . They called the actions of the Russian authorities the biggest threat to Europe's security. To counteract Russia, the authors of the declaration propose to conduct more joint exercises, more actively exchange intelligence information and cooperate in the fight against cyber attacks. The statement also says about the need to cooperate with the Baltic countries.

In August 2014, the Finnish Minister of Defense Karl Haglund said that Finland and Sweden would open their territories to deploy NATO quick response forces . The troops of the quick response of the alliance will be able to freely move around the territories of Finland and Sweden in cases of disasters, emergency situations, threats to the security of these countries, as well as during the exercises. Finland and Sweden, for their part, take on the obligations to support and ensure the troops of the alliance.