{"id":553,"date":"2023-09-18T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=553"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:28:46","slug":"europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-13.jpg 702w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-13-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reuters): <strong>Hungarian MP warns of potential delay in Sweden&#8217;s NATO application<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliament speaker told local television late on Sunday that Hungary is not sure if it needs to approve Sweden&#8217;s application to join NATO, perhaps indicating further delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July 2022, Hungary&#8217;s approval has been stuck in parliament due to concerns about criticism of Hungary&#8217;s democratic decline from Swedish parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to parliament speaker Laszlo Kover, a senior member of the ruling Fidesz party, &#8220;It is not sure we need to approve this bid,&#8221; he was referring to Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His comments follow a letter Hungary&#8217;s foreign minister wrote to his Swedish counterpart last week in which he again raised concerns over what he called &#8220;biased and unfair&#8221; accusations by some Swedish politicians against the Hungarian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sweden applied for NATO membership last year in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and most alliance members quickly ratified its bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey and Hungary, however, have yet to ratify Sweden&#8217;s bid, and both countries have said they closely coordinating their stance on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters): Hungarian MP warns of potential delay in Sweden&#8217;s NATO application The parliament speaker told local television late on Sunday that Hungary is not sure if it needs to approve&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}