Contact: 15 Years of the Czech Republic in the EU
Martin Michelot answered the questions of the 15 years of the Czech membership in the EU and the Czech and French relations.
Countries like France and the Czech Republic agree on issues like a taxation of "giants." Those are the core things that are very potential.
You can read the whole interview in Czech and French here. [From page 7]
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Martin Michelot
Senior Associate Research Fellow
Senior Associate Research Fellow
Expertise: NATO and transatlantic security, European foreign policy and defense, French politics, elections and society, Visegrad Four and Central Europe, EU institutional issues
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