As workers from across Europe marched through the EU quarter in Brussels on Wednesday (29 September), some EU officials felt equally gloomy about proposed cuts in the EU budget and what they see as "scapegoating" of the Union's institutions by national politicians.
With the top tier of EU civil servants earning as much as €14,000 to €16,000 a month, paying much less income tax than private-sector workers and holding jobs for life, it is hard for EU fonctionnaires to plead for sympathy a...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.