Finland, Sweden to apply for NATO membership

Finland announces its intention to seek NATO membership, hours before Sweden's governing party backed a plan to join the trans-Atlantic alliance. The decision comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Finland that joining NATO would be “a mistake”. NATO's foreign ministers are holding a meeting in Germany to discuss moves by Finland and Sweden to join the military alliance. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Berlin.

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