There is undoubtedly a revival of the alliance in many ways. When i spoke to yen staltenberg, he boasted of an unprecedented increase in defence bending. The biggest issue that will hang over the summit is finland and sweden - two countries that both put in bits to join nato. Many thought that the madrid summit would be a kind of celebrate occasion at which they would be welcomed. But turkey has blocked them from joining, demanding concessions on their supposed ties to curdis separatists. I think there are some other divisions, or debates, we could say, still going on.