Description:
Jacques Baud, former Swiss colonel and strategic military intelligence analyst, lives in Brussels under EU sanctions that have frozen his assets and restricted his life.
In this conversation he describes the everyday reality of those sanctions: food brought by people who call themselves a resistance, strangers stopping him on the street every day to offer support, a humanitarian banking exemption that took five months to approve and still isn't fully implemented, and sanctions that are renewed with no clear end date.
He explains why he sees the current European system as a "democrature," why foreign-policy tools are being used inside the EU, and how his case has become emblematic for many Europeans who feel the same pressures.
He explains why he sees the current European system as a "democrature," why foreign-policy tools are being used inside the EU, and how his case has become emblematic for many Europeans who feel the same pressures.
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