RTVS: Christian Kvorning Lassen about whether the European Union is securing the borders better now or five years ago
Greece should get 700 million EUR as a financial aid for securing the border. Christian Kvorning Lassen, research fellow from EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, was answering the question of RTVS: "Is European Union better with securing the borders now or five years ago?"
You can listen to the whole interview in Czech here. It starts at 21 minutes.
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Christian Kvorning Lassen
Deputy Director & Head of Research
Deputy Director & Head of Research
Expertise: Migration/European migration crisis, EU foreign policy, Scandinavian politics, populism, EU enlargement policy
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