What is POLITICO Pro? Policy areas Our Pro coverage Request a demo Contact us BRUSSELS — Ankara showed no signs of lifting its blockade on Stockholm and Helsinki’s NATO accession in a meeting on Thursday.  In a statement after the session, the NATO chief said that the sides “agreed that rapid ratifications for both Finland and Sweden would be in everyone’s interest” and “agreed to continue cooperation in this format and meet again before the Vilnius summit.  “It wasn’t an easy decision for Sweden to give up 200 years of being a non-military aligned state