{"id":1126,"date":"2025-04-02T03:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1126\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T03:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:59:10","slug":"finland-will-exit-global-land-mine-treaty-as-russia-fears-grow-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1126\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland will exit global land mine treaty as Russia fears grow \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Poland and the three Baltic countries<\/a> announced they would leave the international convention as well. Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer border with Russia.<\/p>\n

Stubb also said Helsinki would spend 3 percent of GDP on defense by 2029, compared with 2.4 percent in 2024<\/a>. That’s more than NATO’s current 2 percent target, which is widely expected to be raised during a June summit in The Hague.<\/p>\n

“This is a part of Finland\u2019s contribution to Europe taking greater responsibility for our own defence,” the Finnish president said. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Stubb made a surprise, unofficial trip to Florida and talked with U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine.<\/a> Finland’s leader \u2014 who pitched himself<\/a> to become Europe’s envoy for Ukraine and have a seat at the negotiating table between Russia and the U.S. \u2014\u00a0reportedly said after his visit that Europeans are starting<\/a> to think about when and how to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Poland and the three Baltic countries announced they would leave the international convention as well. Finland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[766,767,768,473,32,769,12,770,332,657,49,333,771,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-1126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-baltics","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-finland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-poland","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-vladimir-putin","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine","22":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114266371709411930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}