World Focus from Brussels
The World Focus from Brussels podcast covers international politics, defence, security, culture and anything else of global interest. Policy analyst and reporter Sveinn Helgason dives into the latest on the international scene, speaking with experts and all sorts of people. In a challenging security environment it has never been as important to understand the world we live in, listening to top experts analysis. World Focus from Brussels gets to the heart of the matter, wherever an interesting story needs to be told and provides the necessary background. You can find World Focus from Brussels on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
World Focus from Brussels
Finland joins NATO entering a new era - An interview with Dr. Iro Särkkä
Finland has joined NATO becoming the thirty first member of the Alliance. This is a historic change for a country that for a long time was militarily non-aligned, charting a tricky path as a next door neighbor to Russia. However the full-scale invasion by Russia into Ukraine on 24. February 2022 has totally changed the security landscape in Europe, eventually leading to the Finnish flag to be raised at NATO HQ in Brussels on 4. April , the founding day of the Alliance. I speak to Dr. Iro Särkkä an expert on defence and security, including Finnish foreign policy and NATO, at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. We discuss how joining NATO is a major step, what Finland brings to the Alliance, the shared security interests of the Nordic and Baltic countries and much more.