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Luckily the law answers to people, and I'm sure the EU will see how this "plan" doesn't follow the law

by mcfedr 3y ago

candiodari 3y ago
The EU used to be the "European union of coal and gas industry". I would be VERY careful with accusing them of being pro-consumer or anti-business. Hell, I've worked for them a lot as a consultant, and let me tell you, they actively hate the people around them (normal people livingin Brussels, including their employees). They hate "normal" people. They see themselves as the savior, as the only source of sanity in Europe (and have some good points in that regard, borders, euro, ...) Which is strange, because there's lots of governments in Brussels, and for example the Belgian Federal government doesn't. Belgian Federal employees totally overwhelm local restaurants, and this is Brussels, right, it's perhaps not London, but whatever weird thing you like eating, brussels has 10 choices in the city center. Lebanese, Chinese, 3 generations Italian, Moroccan, Algerian, and of course Belgian fries, whatever you want, square after square full of restaurants ... But at lunch, impossible to get anything around the north or central station. Or NATO people, while they have a very deserved reputation for paranoia don't hate Brussels. (Consultants are driven around on the NATO compound, phones disabled, for minimum 20 minutes, in a bus with no windows, so you never know what is in which building, and that is if you're coming over to help in one of their data centers. If it's actually classified, like a radar system ... it's not fun) EU commissars, even 2nd and 3rd level are constantly protected by large security forces (~10 people constantly surrounding them, even inside EU commission buildings, they regularly clear the entire area around the Berlaymont building to take those "see, we're approachable" interviews outside they love doing, but really they're about as approachable as a US FT100 CEO), despite that even Jens Stoltenberg mostly only has a driver. The EU is totally isolated from everything. It's a huge government, but located on a relatively small area (the "European quarter"), where you won't find many restaurants, or culture, even the metro station is pretty far away from Berlaymont. EU employees eat inside EU buildings, they live outside of Brussels, they never have meetings outside of EU buildings ...

Luckily the law answers to people, and I'm sure the EU will see how this "plan" doesn't follow the law

by mcfedr 3y ago

Luckily the law answers to people, and I'm sure the EU will see how this "plan" doesn't follow the law

The EU used to be the "European union of coal and gas industry". I would be VERY careful with accusing them of being pro-consumer or anti-business. Hell, I've worked for them a lot as a consultant, and let me tell you, they actively hate the people around them (normal people livingin Brussels, including their employees). They hate "normal" people. They see themselves as the savior, as the only source of sanity in Europe (and have some good points in that regard, borders, euro, ...) Which is strange, because there's lots of governments in Brussels, and for example the Belgian Federal government doesn't. Belgian Federal employees totally overwhelm local restaurants, and this is Brussels, right, it's perhaps not London, but whatever weird thing you like eating, brussels has 10 choices in the city center. Lebanese, Chinese, 3 generations Italian, Moroccan, Algerian, and of course Belgian fries, whatever you want, square after square full of restaurants ... But at lunch, impossible to get anything around the north or central station. Or NATO people, while they have a very deserved reputation for paranoia don't hate Brussels. (Consultants are driven around on the NATO compound, phones disabled, for minimum 20 minutes, in a bus with no windows, so you never know what is in which building, and that is if you're coming over to help in one of their data centers. If it's actually classified, like a radar system ... it's not fun) EU commissars, even 2nd and 3rd level are constantly protected by large security forces (~10 people constantly surrounding them, even inside EU commission buildings, they regularly clear the entire area around the Berlaymont building to take those "see, we're approachable" interviews outside they love doing, but really they're about as approachable as a US FT100 CEO), despite that even Jens Stoltenberg mostly only has a driver. The EU is totally isolated from everything. It's a huge government, but located on a relatively small area (the "European quarter"), where you won't find many restaurants, or culture, even the metro station is pretty far away from Berlaymont. EU employees eat inside EU buildings, they live outside of Brussels, they never have meetings outside of EU buildings ...