How EU tackles global human rights crisis [INTERVIEW]

Nearly 2,500 leaders from 90 countries, including heads of government, ministers, senior officials and global experts, discussed key security challenges facing Europe at the Warsaw Security Forum last month.

Kajsa Ollongren.

Photo: Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024 from Belgium, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The high-profile conference, organised by the Pulaski Foundation, a Warsaw-based think tank, focused on ways of strengthening Europe's defences, ensuring transatlantic unity and holding Russia accountable for its aggression in Ukraine.

Among those taking part was Kajsa Ollongren, the European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights, who also served as the defence minister of the Netherlands from 2022 to 2024.

Marcin Matuszewski spoke with her at the conference.

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