The new Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson openly supported the deployment of nuclear weapons in Sweden in the event of Sweden’s accession to NATO. “You will get exactly the same response I got from the Finnish prime minister,” Kristersson told a joint news conference with his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin in Helsinki.
“We’ve decided that we don’t want to close any doors on the future,” she had previously responded when asked whether Sweden and Finland would accept nuclear weapons on their soil. It was “quite natural for Sweden and Finland to act together on these issues,” said Kristersson. He has no intention other than to “walk hand in hand with Finland” in that sense. However, both Marin and Kristersson acknowledged that reservations could be negotiated “later”.