
US and European officials eye summit for progress for Finland and Sweden joining NATO
CNN
European and US officials do not expect that Turkey's concerns about Finland and Sweden joining NATO will be assuaged before the alliance's summit this week, US and European officials told CNN.
Yet some officials believe that Turkey may be eying the summit as a place to finally make agreements that could propel the process forward.
"My best projection based on what I've seen is that they will run this to the wire at Madrid. They also always prefer if they're going to make concessions to do it at the leader level, they believe that enhances that status," said one European official when discussing the matter. "It is Turkey's standard operating procedure not to give concessions till the last possible moment. And that last possible moment is usually defined as a bilateral with the US president, followed by a leaders meeting."

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