Sweden will struggle to fulfil its mandate to recruit 250 soldiers and other personnel for NATO forces.
According to Report, the country’s Defence Minister Paul Jonsson said in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper.
“We have to provide the NATO Joint Command with about 250 soldiers and other personnel. But it is a very difficult task for us to recruit a sufficient number of personnel,” he said.
The minister noted that as a newcomer to NATO, Sweden had tried to participate in the alliance’s defence planning process. Recently, however, “NATO has been going through the biggest changes since the end of the Cold War”, which makes Stockholm’s job more difficult.
It will be recalled that Sweden joined the alliance on 7 March 2024 and on 11 March its national flag was raised in front of NATO headquarters in Brussels.
