I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
If you don’t know the process for adopting proposals, your chances of positively influencing the outcome go down. A challenge is that many of the most critical steps, e.g. validation of the entry and inter-service consultation – are not public. If you are blind to these critical windows of opportunity, your chances diminish. From time … Read more
Policymakers have a tough job. They are tasked with making decisions. Those decisions are taken based on a lot of assumptions. And those assumptions come from what is presumed to be correct data and information. If the data is wrong, there is a high chance of serious negative unintended consequences, and the policy goals will … Read more
I have been in Brussels since 1996. At every election, I’ve heard that the progressive centre and centre-left would collapse. Let’s see if that happened. The division between the progressive centre, centre left, and the centre right and right looks more or less the same today as it looked in 1979. 2. … Read more
Background The Commission took a decision during the Easter of 2023 to remove the details of many staff from Whoiswho web site. At the time, many people had no idea why this decision had been taken. Directors and Heads of Unit started to get a lot more phone calls asking to speak to civil servants … Read more