nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220516-182242-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220516s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220516-182242-0 doi eng 342 23 Åhman, Joachim Author aut A Swedish NATO Membership and Its Constitutional Barriers Åhman, Joachim Verfassungsblog 2022-05-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the debate about a possible NATO membership in Sweden has been intense. The ruling Social Democratic Party was against a membership for a long time, but on Sunday 15 May it changed its position. Now everything points to a Swedish NATO accession and it seems likely that the constitutional barriers for that are surprisingly low: parliamentary approval with a simple majority vote. CC BY-SA 4.0 Instrument of Government NATO NATO accession Riksdag Russian War against Ukraine Sweden Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-swedish-nato-membership-and-its-constitutional-barriers/ raw object