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Relationship dossier

Greece Sweden

Relationship assessment

EU partners with practical cooperation on NATO accession and wildfire response

Greece toward Sweden

+25

Greece ratified Sweden’s NATO accession protocol, supporting Sweden’s entry into the alliance.

Sweden toward Greece

+25

Sweden deployed firefighters to Greece during the 2021 wildfires, providing practical emergency assistance.

Overall relationship

+25

The relationship is cooperative, with shared EU membership providing a durable framework and concrete cooperation on Sweden’s NATO accession and emergency response to Greek wildfires. These examples support a positive assessment, although they do not establish the breadth of cooperation across other policy areas.

How to read these scores

Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.

−100
Extreme sustained hostility
−50
Substantially adversarial
0
Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
+50
Substantially cooperative
+100
Exceptionally close sustained partnership

“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.

Relationship context

Knowledge coverageLimited

Overview

Greece and Sweden have cooperative bilateral relations shaped by their shared participation in the European Union. Greece ratified Sweden’s NATO accession protocol, while Sweden deployed firefighters to Greece during the 2021 wildfires. These concrete actions indicate practical cooperation, though the scope and durability of broader bilateral initiatives are less clear.

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