{"id":28952,"date":"2025-04-29T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/?p=28952"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:17:41","slug":"alliance-under-scrutiny-confidence-in-natos-security-guarantees-has-weakened-during-trumps-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/alliance-under-scrutiny-confidence-in-natos-security-guarantees-has-weakened-during-trumps-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance Under Scrutiny \u2013 Confidence in NATO\u2019s Security Guarantees Has Weakened During Trump\u2019s Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Read the full analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eva-analyysi-no-147-eng.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key findings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two out of three (66%) Finns have a positive attitude towards Finland\u2019s NATO membership. Over six months, support for NATO has decreased by five percentage points.<\/li>\n<li>More than half (53%) now believe that NATO membership does not guarantee that other countries would ultimately assist Finland in a real crisis. Confidence in NATO support has seen a significant (-17 percentage points) decline compared to the previous survey conducted in autumn 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Only one-third (32%) believe that NATO\u2019s security guarantees are such a powerful deterrent that no one would dare to challenge a member state.<\/li>\n<li>Three in ten (29%) believe it would be in Finland\u2019s interest to engage in the deepest possible cooperation with the United States, regardless of the issue. A larger share (42%) rejects such deep cooperation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sidestory sidestory--left\">\n<h5>How the Survey Was Conducted<\/h5>\n<p>The results are based on responses from 2,070 individuals. The margin of error at the national level is 2\u20133 percentage points in either direction. Data was collected between March 12 and March 24, 2025. Respondents represent the entire population of Finland aged 18 to 79 (excluding \u00c5land). The data was gathered through Taloustutkimus Oy\u2019s online panel, with the research sample formed through stratified random sampling. The data has been weighted to represent the population by age, gender, region, education, occupation or status, industry, and political affiliation. The statistical analysis and result graphics were prepared by Pentti Kiljunen (Yhdyskuntatutkimus Oy).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full analysis here. Key findings Two out of three (66%) Finns have a positive attitude towards Finland\u2019s NATO membership. Over six months, support for NATO has decreased by five percentage points. More than half (53%) now believe that NATO membership does not guarantee that other countries would ultimately assist Finland in a real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":28938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[978,821,861,824,979,980],"coauthors":[981],"class_list":["post-28952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-defense","tag-nato-en","tag-security","tag-security-policy","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-usa-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28952"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28965,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952\/revisions\/28965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28952"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}