Finland’s new normal: former military generals elected to parliament

Several high-ranking former military officers have been elected to Finland’s new parliament, highlighting how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shifted the country’s politics as it transforms from a neutral nation to a Nato member.

Sworn in this month, Finland’s parliament is drawing on the experience of six ex-officers to tackle one of the country’s biggest foreign and defence policy challenges in decades: integrating into the western military alliance that it formally joined on April 4.