HS: Support for Nato membership has risen to 61% in Finland

SIXTY-ONE PER CENT of Finns believe Finland should join Nato, reveals a survey conducted for Helsingin Sanomat by Kantar TNS on 28–30 March.

Public support for membership in the defence alliance is presently higher than ever before in surveys commissioned by the newspaper, having increased by seven percentage points in the past 7–12 days. Opposition to the membership, in turn, has decreased from 21 to 16 per cent.