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About Nikolaj Nielsen

By Lisbeth Kirk

Brussels, 7. Jan 2013, 07:43

Nikolaj Nielsen is a Danish-American journalist working for EUobserver in Brussels. He won a King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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