The scramble among member states to host EU agencies is a feature of European integration that dates back to the founding of the first decentralised bodies.
A dive into the archives shows that time and again, political deal-making, not logic or objective criteria, is the decisive factor for determining the seat of an EU agency.
The notion that agencies should be equally divided among member states was already applied early on, when the first agency of the European Communities was ...
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