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00:00FOCUSING ON THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL ECONOMY AND FULLY WORKED AT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND U.K. TREASURY. HE JOINS US ON THE PHONE FROM LONDON. IS THIS ATTACK A FAILURE OF EUROPE CONTAINING TERRORISTS. >> IT IS A FAILURE. IT IS A FAILURE IN BELGIUM AND MORE BROADLY FOR THE REST OF EUROPE AND I DON'T THINK THAT TELL YOUR IS LOST ON PUBLIC OPINION. THERE IS A GROWING SENSE AND PERCEPTION AMONG EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPINION THAT ITS LEADERS ARE NOT DEALING WITH THE TERRORISTS, AND THAT IS RESULTING IN A GREATER PUSH TOWARDS AN INCREASE IN THE POPULARITY OF POPULIST PARTIES FROM GERMANY TO FRANCE TO HIS FAR EAST AS POLAND AND HUNGARY. >> ONE THING I WANT TO GET FROM YOU IS BELGIUM IS DISTINCTIVE BECAUSE IT IS A TINY COUNTRY, BUT IT HAS PROVIDED THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA NUMBER OF FIGHTERS . ITS INTELLIGENCE AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DON'T SEEM TO WORK WITH ONE ANOTHER. IS BELGIAN THE EXCEPTION OR THE NORM IN EUROPE? >> THERE ARE DEFINITELY A SET OF CONTEXTUAL AND SPECIFIC FACTS THAT MAKE BELGIUM HONORABLE COME MY BUT -- VULNERABLE, BUT IT HAS CAPTURED A LOT OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE TUITION -- INSTITUTION. I DO THINK THERE ARE A SET OF INTERNAL CHALLENGES. I THINK MORE BROADLY THIS IS A CONSENSUS OF EUROPE. >> WE HAVE SEEN THE NATIONAL RHETORIC JUMP ON THIS TODAY. MARINE LE PEN CALLING IN A STATEMENT FOR A VAST POLICE OPERATION TO OCCUPY NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE FRINGES OF THE REPUBLIC, TO SEIZE ALL THE WEAPONS AND EXPLOSIVES THAT ARE THERE. THIS OF THE SAME TIME WHEN THE EU IS STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW SCHENGEN BORDERS ARE GOING TO HOLD UP WITH THE INFLUX OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS. HOW DOES IT PLAY OUT? >> THE EVENTS OF TODAY PLAYED TO THE POPULIST NARRATIVE COMA AND I DO THINK YOU WILL SEE POPULIST PARTIES CAPTURED THE EVENTS OF TODAY AND USE IT TO FURTHER THEIR OWN POPULARITY AND INCREASE THEIR OWN SUPPORT. THE BIGGER QUESTION IS WHETHER THE RESPONSE IS GOING TO BE A NATIONAL RESPONSE. ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE RESURRECTION OF BORDER CONTROLS? ARE READ GOING TO SEE COUNTRIES REACTING UNILATERALLY OR A MORE COLLECTIVE RESPONSE? LEADERS ARE TALKING ABOUT MORE COOPERATION, MORE OF A SHARED COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, AND ULTIMATELY WHAT WERE LIKELY TO SEE IS MORE NATIONALIZATION OF THE POLICY RESPONSE. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE COUNTRIES CERTAINLY ON THE BORDERS BECOMING MUCH MORE NATIONAL IN THEIR THINKING AND IN THEIR POLICY RESPONSES. >> RIGHT.

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