The EU Commission is to investigate whether it is possible to help American Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) after the US announcement that the operation is to be shut down.
For us on the other side of the Iron Curtain, it was the radio that we got a lot of information from about what was really going on. It has been a beacon of democracy, says EU Foreign Minister, Estonian Kaja Kallas after the EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday.
According to Kallas, however, the EU cannot simply take over the financing of the radio channel, which has its headquarters in Prague in the Czech Republic.
We have many organizations that come with the same request (for money). But there was real pressure from the foreign ministers to find a solution, so we were tasked with seeing what we can do, Kallas explains.
