Could the European Union save the United Nations...
...in the fight against attacks by populist politics?
Former European Union ambassador and political advisor Mikael Barfod is a visiting professor with the University of Huddersfield’s None in Three Global Research Centre and they invited him to the University to deliver a guest lecture which was entitled: 'Filling the vacuum: who will save multilateralism?’.
In this video, we ask him why he feels the European Union is the only organisation with the capacity to save multilateralism and regain unity within the United Nations.
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