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Job Alert – European Career Moves and Strategies

The Easter break was a quiet one in Brussels, which cannot be said for Europe as a whole: the EU’s least favourite Head of State, Victor Orban, gained a whopping two-thirds majority in his national elections. In parallel, the European Parliament published a report voicing strong concerns about the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, corruption, freedom of expression and more. Austria, Poland, Hungary – European values, the…

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Job Alert – Data – Taxes – Voices

Cambridge Analytica’s illegal use of Facebook data (and Facebook’s knowledge about it), Donald Trump’s most recent ideas and Brexit dominated these past weeks – hence business as usual. The European Commission’s planst to introduce a VAT tax on digital revenues comes in handy, as Cambridge Analytica and similar companies seem to provide excellent revenue streams – the Commission might need to think twice in the future, before EU data…

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Job Alert – Nuclear Brussels and other Battles

Just in time for the international women’s day, Eurostat informs us that women on earned 16% less than men in 2016 – and the EU bubble is right on average. Eastern European countries do not necessarily fare better in the comparison – only a 5% difference in Romania, but also in Italy, but more than 25% in Estonia and almost 22% in the Czech Republic and Germany. Much remains…

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Job Alert – Europe’s Changing of the Guards

The end is nigh – at least of the Commission’s legislative period. Even those too buried in work to see the writing on the wall have now received word with a sledgehammer: Martin Selmayr, the Commission President’s Head of Cabinet and far and wide seen as informally the most powerful person inside the Commission, will change positions to become Secretary General of the European Commission as of 1 March…

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Job Alert – Of Monkeys and Women

John Steinbeck would have had ample material for a modern novel these past weeks: Just in time for Volkswagen’s Annual Brussels reception, the car company’s monkey business came to light – and even more appalling, fume tests on humans. Reputation is now probably far below tobacco. With information known for quite a while already and apparent approval of senior management (not only of VW, but also of Daimler and BMW),…

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Job Alert – It’s the Environment, Stupid

As every year, Brussels is quickly getting back on its feet after the winter holidays – with a spectacular vote on energy efficiency in the European Parliament, a new Commission High Level group on fake news, a strategy to reduce plastics packaging as well as personal and political quarrels nationally and in the European Parliament. Cryptocurrencies, the #Metoo campaign, economic recovery and other global topics are currently debated in…

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Job Alert – A Happy New Year: from Brexit Bang to Presidency Troubles

2019 starts with a bang, even though an expected one: 432 against 202 votes in the UK Parliament – Theresa May’s Brexit deal was overwhelmingly rejected with a historic majority. No deal or a referendum is what many pro-EU Brits now hope for – and things move quickly: another No Confidence vote on Wednesday night could well lead to a new general election and who knows, no Brexit after…

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Job Alert – Busy Business

2018 has slowly but intensively started, and it promises to become a busy year: it is the last year before the end of the current Commission’s period in 2019 where legislative initiatives can be successfully launched. The Commission’s Directorate Generals are consequently working their heads off, and we can expect a good number of impact assessments – a precondition to most proposals – coming our way very shortly. Member…

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Job Alert – Brussels Christmas Follies

Dreaming of a white Christmas… not a very popular song in Brussels. The year is nearing its usual end with an absolutely unexpected natural desaster: snow.  3 cm suffice for chaos on the roads, at the airport, public transport basically completely paralysed – time to leave the city. Someone apparently not informed about what snow does to the city, was Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After US President Trump…

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Job Alert – Waffles and waffling in Brussels

Christmas is coming to Brussels with less waffles than one would expect: last week’s not-so-grey skies saw a huge fire evolving over the south of the city, as Milcamp’s waffle factory went up in flames. It has otherwise also been a bumpy period, with some ups and downs. German is surprisingly unstable at these moments, with failed coalition talks between four parties – currently, a renewed grand coalition between…

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