Episode 13: Helsinki & hybrid threats, with NATO-EU CoE Director Hanna Smith

Channeling Brussels

This episode, Channeling Brussels comes to you from Helsinki, Finland, where the first joint NATO-European Union Center of Excellence (CoE)has been set up to counter hybrid threats. Few places know how to handle hybrid threats better than a country with an 830-mile border with Russia. In this episode, Teri Schultz speaks with Hanna Smith, the CoE's Director of Strategic Planning and Responses, about how Finland plans to help partners with its deep understanding of its big neighbor and its preparedness for dealing with any threat to sovereignty and stability. Finland's special history, sometimes maligned in the past, is now being praised as a model. Channeling Brussels is brought to you by the Atlantic Council. [Intro/Outro music "Happy Rock" by Bensound under a CC-BY-ND license (www.bensound.com/royalty-free-mus…rack/happy-rock/)]