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I'm going to play devil's advocate: the EU's mission was to bring peace. Maybe 80,000 employees producing garbage is a small price to pay for piece.
by zermelo 10mo ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate: the EU's mission was to bring peace. Maybe 80,000 employees producing garbage is a small price to pay for piece.
- pcrh 10mo agoAgreed. The EU institutions are remarkably efficient compared to their national equivalents. 80,000 civil servants is a tiny number for a polity of 450 million people. Ireland for example has 50,000 for a population of 1/10th the size. Admittedly however, the scope of national civil services tends to be much larger than that of the EU's.
- potato3732842 10mo agoThose 50k Irish bureaucrats exist in that number because the organizations they work for are tasked with, among other things, ensuring compliance with rules written in Brussels.
- disgruntledphd2 10mo agoWhere are you getting your Irish numbers from? This source [0] suggests around 300k if we count everything. It looks like you are just counting the core "civil" servants and defence maybe? [0] https://publicjobs.ie/en/information-hub?view=article&id=247&catid=12 https://publicjobs.ie/en/information-hub?view=article&id=247...
- pcrh 10mo agoIrish Times: "More than 50,000 staff now employed in Civil Service " https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/15/more-than-50000-staff-now-employed-in-civil-service/ https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/15/more-than-5000...
- disgruntledphd2 10mo agoThanks! Interesting that the answer to the PQ doesn't map to the official data (not surprising, but interesting).