RORY JUBBER: Opposition parties need to get cracking with foreign policy plans
Given the prospect of a new governing coalition in 2024, they should get to work on formulating a stance
14 August 2022 - 18:23
As the crow flies the village of Anttola, on the shores of sprawling Lake Saimaa in southeast Finland, is 80km from the Finno-Russian border. That border is 1,300km long, running from the frigid reaches of Lapland down to the Gulf of Finland, not too far from St Petersburg.
That 1,300km will shortly become a vast new stretch of Nato-Russian border. Finnish politicians and voters have rapidly shifted from scepticism about Nato membership to overwhelming positivity due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24...
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