Some senior European Commission officials will from this week onwards leave their office desks and work as interns in small companies to learn about the professions for which they make EU-wide laws.
The EU executive on Monday (6 November) launched a programme that will see the first 50 commission officials going to Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain to work in small and medium sized companies (SMEs) for one week.
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