Conversation overheard between two senior Commission officials:
Official 1: “Things are going ok, but we’re desperately short of resources. I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”
Official 2 [shrugs]: “We are all hamsters on wheels”.
Despite the synchronized beeps and trills of our iphones, time is a notoriously subjective phenomenon. So while to the outsider, ‘Brussels’ may be a synonym for political processes that unfold in geological time, seemingly indifferent to the passio...
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Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media.