ČRo Radiožurnál | How can EU interior ministers adjust the rules for returning failed asylum seekers?

The attack on two football fans in Belgium has exposed the inefficiencies and flaws in Belgium's migration policy. How can EU interior ministers adjust the rules on returning failed asylum seekers? Our deputy director, Viktor Daněk, commented on the topic in the Odpolední publicistika programme.

"I consider the attack on the two Swedish citizens to be a flagrant failure of the Belgian authorities, who are responsible for ensuring that EU rules and national laws are applied in practice, and this must be emphasised. The fact that the perpetrator in question had been refused asylum from several countries shows how wide the problem is and that the Belgian authorities are certainly not alone in this."

You can listen to the whole interview in Czech here. (From minute 1.)

Viktor Daněk
Deputy Director

Before entering the NGO sphere, Viktor Daněk worked for almost ten years as a journalist. During his time with the public service Czech radio, he focused mainly on covering EU affairs. He spent almost five years as a permanent correspondent in Brussels, where he cooperated with other media outlets. Before his career in journalism, he gained experience in the area of marketing and communication in the Česká spořitelna banking group and at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds university degrees in Media Studies and International Relations. Viktor Daněk joined the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in October 2023. He continues to be active in the media as a freelancer. His main areas of interest are institutional questions of European integration, globalisation and the EU’s climate and migration policy.