Hungary to Allow Sweden Into NATO Following Jet Fighter Deal
- Parliament in Budapest set to ratify Swedish bid NATO Monday
- Hungary signs deal to expand its Gripen fighter fleet to 18
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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban confirmed that his country will remove the last obstacle to Sweden’s NATO accession after the Nordic country agreed to sell Gripen jet fighters to Budapest.
The Hungarian parliament will take the “necessary decisions” to ratify the Nordic country’s NATO accession early next week, Orban said at a press conference with his Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson in the Hungarian capital on Friday.