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EPSeptical
That is how I have been feeling after participating in a competition to become EU official. I tried to prepare it seriously, and then you arrive to the test centre and you can’t avoid wondering if it really made a difference. The European Personnel Selection Office, EPSO, prepares the 3 types of tests the same [...]
Watching it like an outsider
My out of office automatic email reply has been on for almost three long months. Coming back last week, I felt like home again after a long trip: everything seemed so familiar, and so much different at the same time. (Almost) same faces, same corridors, more or less the same workload, but a different perspective. [...]
Six degrees
Fortunately, the title of this post does not refer to the temperature now in Brussels, but to a theory, the “six degrees of separation”. I am sure most of you know what I am talking about: that every single person in the world is separated from, and connected to, everyone else by just six others.
A bilingual chicken, a naked chicken
The “beauty queen” of the communication campaign for the elections is the chicken. By popular request. One of them even got a love letter in the form of graffiti: “Je t’aime, poulet” (I love you, chicken).
Too young to be a veteran
It is strange to hear that someone talks about you as a veteran when you are not in your thirties yet; but the truth is that in a dynamic and challenging team like ours, in the webcomm, it is not that difficult.
Put a virus in your life!
Let’s be cool, let’s put a virus in our life. It is the trend of the moment. You just need a good and powerful one, it will spread all around and reach people you never though it would.
She came… and I just saw her
There are people that mean something to us personally, that can touch us with their story and whom we really want to take the opportunity of talking to: it can be now or never. I am sure each one of us has at least a name to say, someone they would really like to ask about an experience, an opinion, a fact. In my case one of those big names is Ingrid Betancourt.
She is coming! And I saw her first!
In one month (8th October), Ingrid Betancourt will come to the European Parliament, and I imagine every single member of this team would love to interview her… If the agenda of the visit is not very tight, if she is not very tired, if we manage to get an interview with her, if….you will see [...]
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