Alexander Stubb

This handout from the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) account of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban @PM_ViktorOrban posted on July 11, 2024 shows Orban (L) posing with former U.S. president Donald Trump at Trump's estate in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida

NATO leaders pose for an official photo at the NATO summit in Washington, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Front row from left, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Dimitar Glavchev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium, Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, U.S.

Leaders from 32 countries gathered in Washington for the 75th anniversary NATO summit, with all eyes on President Biden. With questions swirling about his mental and physical fitness to run for re-election, Biden will now be tested on a global level.

Day 719 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Former Prime Minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, commented for Al Jazeera on Finland's entry into NATO, as well as the opinion of the Finns on joining the war in Ukraine since its outbreak.
He stated that Russia will threaten Finland in various ways when that country joins NATO, but that they are ready.

A GERB delegation headed by Borissov is in Finland's capital Helsinki for the conference of the EU-wide European People's Party that is to choose its spitzenkandidat for the 2019 European Parliament elections. The decision is expected on November 8, according to EU Reporter. 

German EU lawmaker Manfred Weber won the backing of Europe's center-right parties on Thursday to stand in the race to become European Commission president next year.

It is an election campaign intended to catapult the winner into one of the EU's top jobs, but 445 million voters could be forgiven for not noticing.

Europe's largest political group, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), will on Thursday choose their candidate to run the European Commission, the powerful executive that drafts and enforces EU law.

Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) chairman Kelemen Hunor said at the European People's Party (EPP) Congress in Helsinki that a strong European Union is needed in a global competition because the member states can only be successful together, and the European Union "needs to be rethought and strengthened," informs an UDMR press release issued for AGERPRES on Wednesday.

The meeting between Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb on Monday was conducted in a good atmosphere with Mr. Stubb saying that there is no Grexit issue.

“I hear good things about Greece everywhere and from other countries and in the Eurogroup,” he said after the meeting.