STOCKHOLM (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed Tuesday with pomp and ceremony firstly of a two-day state go to to Sweden throughout which he’ll meet Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the Scandinavian nation’s monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Macron and his spouse, Brigitte, have been greeted by the king within the internal courtyard of the downtown Stockholm royal fort that’s the official residence of the Swedish royals. There, Macron and Carl Gustaf reviewed members of the Grenadier Guards that had lined up.
Later Tuesday, Macron is about to debate the way forward for European safety at a army academy in Stockholm, along with Kristersson and the king.
The warfare in Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO software are prone to be on the desk.
After greater than a 12 months of delays, Turkey earlier this month accomplished its ratification of Sweden’s bid to affix NATO, that means Hungary is now the final member of the army alliance to not have given its approval. All NATO international locations should agree earlier than a brand new member can be part of the alliance.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden and neighboring Finland deserted their conventional positions of army nonalignment to hunt safety below NATO’s safety umbrella. Finland joined the alliance final 12 months.
The French president initially was to journey to Sweden in late October, however the go to was postponed because of the Gaza warfare that started with Hamas’ assault in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
