The European Commission will send 350 of its senior officials for one week internships in small companies - such as bakeries or carpentry firms - so that they can learn about small businesses (SMEs) for which they draft European laws.
EU industry commissioner Gunter Verheugen presented the intitiative on Monday (17 July), announcing that the first 50 civil servants would leave the Brussels' headquarters of the EU executive and set out for traineeships across the member states already th...
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