Finland will leave the World Treaty of Land Mines, will spend 3% of GDP for Defense – Politico

Last month, Poland and the three Baltic countries announced that they would also leave the international convention. Finland shares a 1340 -kilometer border with Russia.

Stubb also said that Helsinki would spend 3% of GDP for defense by 2029, compared to 2.4% in 2024. It is more than the current NATO objective, which should be widely increased at a June summit in The Hague.

“This is part of Finland’s contribution to Europe, which assumes greater responsibility for our own defense,” said the Finnish president.

During the weekend, Stubb surprised and unofficial in Florida and discussed with American President Donald Trump of the war in Ukraine. The head of Finland – who arose to become the European envoy for Ukraine and has a siege at the negotiating table between Russia and the United States – would have declared after his visit that Europeans were starting to think about when and the way of engaging with Russian President Vladimir Putin.