Despite my office is two doors away from Josh’s, I have never noticed the Tuna addiction mentioned here. I knew he liked bananas a lot but tuna? Just to point out that we also learn about our team on this blog :-)

what I really like about you, about your blog, is that you have the courage to become personal, to write about you, your feelings, your opinions, about yourself, about each other.

There are very few people within the EU institutions – and definitely no other unit or team – that feels as human as you make yourselves felt.

And despite what some critics might say:

This personal perspective creates an impression of professionalism, well beyond what all the faceless bureaucrats could ever create with document 104040/203 (COM), because you show that human beings can work professionally for us, with us, among us.

Or the other way round: You can work professionally on EU matters and remain human; you remain human beings with all your differences, social and cultural, and these differences are not obliterated by what you do – you have to deal with these differences as individual being and as professional EU officials.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and thanks for working for us – it’s much appreciated!