Name: Sweden to join Nato: BBC News Review
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Sweden, traditionally neutral, joins Nato.

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Make sure you watch to the end to learn the vocabulary

so you can learn more English from news headlines. Now, the story.

The nation applied to join the defence alliance

All Nato members are expected to help an ally

if attacked. Hungary was the final Nato member to approve the invitation.

people need to understand this news story in English?

We have clears path, final hurdle and farewell.

This is News Review from BBC Learning English.

This is from the BBC. Hungary's parliament

clears path for Sweden's Nato membership.

So, Hungary was the last member of Nato to approve

That's the expression that we're looking at. It contains that word path. Now

a path is another word for a route a way from one place to another,

Yes, it is. And clear - it's often an adjective, but in this case,

it's a verb and it means to physically remove the obstacles

that are stopping you from walking on the path.

OK. Now let's use our imaginations, Phil.

Here we have Sweden and here we have NATO and there is a path between the two.

But imagine that path is covered with trees and bushes. Hungary

comes along and clears the path is a useful way of thinking about it. It's

a very literal way of looking at it. Here

and Hungary's decision has cleared the path for Sweden to join Nato. Now,

I think there's another way we could use this to talk about the world

But there is somebody else who has more experience and qualifications than you.

However, that person decides to leave the organisation and that act

clears the path for you to get the promotion.

Sweden overcomes final hurdle to join Nato in historic shift.

OK, so it says that Sweden overcomes something.

It means they have solved a problem. And in this case,

We need to know what a hurdle is to understand this headline.

Yes, well, a hurdle is one of those frames that athletes jump over

and actually, I can already see a link between this headline

and the last one because that was all about removing obstacles. And a hurdle

So, Sweden's final hurdle or final obstacle

to joining NATO was Hungary's vote to approve them and they overcame it.

Well, the reason that we make News Review

is to help you overcome any hurdles in understanding the news in English.

Sweden will complete its long farewell to neutrality

with Nato accession. So here in this headline neutrality

means that Sweden hasn't taken sides in any war or conflict

The word, though, that we're looking at is farewell.

What can you tell us about farewell Phil?

OK, well this is quite an old formal English word.

Historically, it meant go well or travel well.

But, really, it's just another way of saying goodbye,

but Phil is it the same as saying goodbye?

I've never heard you say at the end of a working day

at the end of the working day, but it would sound a bit strange.

that's kind of an emotional goodbye an important

goodbye, or something that's very final. Yeah.

So if I was going to move to a different country,

I might have a farewell party and I might make a farewell speech

at that party, but I wouldn't do those things

No. It has this kind of poetic and romantic sense.

So we could talk about a fond farewell, an emotional farewell.

And if you want a really old fashioned formal English way of saying goodbye,

Not farewell because we will be back next week. Let's look at that again.

makes something easier to achieve. Final hurdle

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