{"id":1001,"date":"2023-09-18T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:02:12","slug":"europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-13.jpg 702w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-13-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">(Reuters):<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">Hungarian MP warns of potential delay in Sweden\u2019s NATO application<\/span><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">The parliament speaker told local television late on Sunday that Hungary is not sure if it needs to approve Sweden\u2019s application to join NATO, perhaps indicating further delays.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">Since July 2022, Hungary\u2019s approval has been stuck in parliament due to concerns about criticism of Hungary\u2019s democratic decline from Swedish parties.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">According to parliament speaker Laszlo Kover, a senior member of the ruling Fidesz party, \u201cIt is not sure we need to approve this bid,\u201d he was referring to Sweden.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">His comments follow a letter Hungary\u2019s foreign minister wrote to his Swedish counterpart last week in which he again raised concerns over what he called \u201cbiased and unfair\u201d accusations by some Swedish politicians against the Hungarian government.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">Sweden applied for NATO membership last year in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and most alliance members quickly ratified its bid.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">Turkey and Hungary, however, have yet to ratify Sweden\u2019s bid, and both countries have said they closely coordinating their stance on the matter.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;\">Later this month, the Hungarian parliament will reassemble, but it is not yet known if a discussion and vote on the Swedish ratification will be on the schedule.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters):\u00a0Hungarian MP warns of potential delay in Sweden\u2019s NATO application The parliament speaker told local television late on Sunday that Hungary is not sure if it needs to approve Sweden\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}