soul_stripped @ 2008-01-31T15:22:00
city of contrasts
It is always the same pain with one. Just gone off to conquer the world one is airy three days later, already back and busy at home again to feel at home. With impressions from the trip and a thousand new job inspiration in the head and fatigue symptoms in the corresponding Body it is hard to learn and that is why first blogged
Yes -. Was like the Brussels anyway? I think this city can best be described with the bold concept at the beginning of my text: city of contrasts. Brussels is like a huge office, but which everyone seems to come just to work - not to live. In Parliament, District, glass building on Mamorfassaden series, less than ten sticks of magnitude it falls it does not continue on - office space for rent wherever you looked. And that's where emotional term but actually already ate all there. Any large company, every country, state, region, union organization has a so-called lobbying office in Brussels. With the license to influence. 15 000 lobbyists to keep constantly in the Belgian capital, which represented only one with a person other like something more decadent. The Bavarians, for example: Who are the Rue de Belliard - hinaufschlendert one of the main office and Brussels, to the government district, where the Commission and Parliament to give a hand, should pay attention to the castle that stands between the two buildings. So almost three-meter walk, the impressive Gartenvorraum Parliament House: They are namely, the Bavarians. To get as much of their interests in the administrative machinery of the EU, the Free Staters take probably know this deeper into the pocket and not just rent the most expensive place, but still waiting for with staff that the representation exceeds the German Confederation. . Relationships that give to think
NRW and Baden-Wuerttemberg are hot on the trail, the NRW has just moved into a new house, next to the Baden and Swabia, after all, the parliamentarians are usually preferred to that - the walk would be shorter. As you can see, a city of the controversy, as the force measurements have to turn again.
Then the other side: the scrapping of Brussels. Like all the places I could see from the train to see everything that is not part of the complex of the EU from forgotten. As if before 20 years time has stood still and Brussels with her. In addition to the glass buildings hardly a facade, not painted, or kapputt befressen of mold is. A picture to which it is hard to get used if three meters office complexes, stand in the light which never runs out. The second page of Brussels is not only less impressive, but also surprisingly lacking in character. Remaining in the shadow of a giant's lobbying industry. Nevertheless, a
einmailge experience. My professor has come up with everything she has to offer in contacts. So we have come to the canteen of the Committee of Regions and the European Wrtschafts and Social Committee and then us then one also has a swing Alliance Partner told from their everyday life. Then the chairman of Greenpeace Europe (a man with a knit tie, as one would expect), the sole correspondent for the "time" in Brussels, a staff member of the European Commission, a representative of the European Trade Union Confederation (who live not bad), the industry members of the National Centre NRW in Brussels (whose office is just about the most expensive thing you can imagine) and so on and so forth. Since one ever forgets that one has no free time for sightseeing and also accepts a perpetual rush from one place to another.
conclusion of my trip: Lobbying is interesting, a whole town, the networked is, too. Nevertheless, it must be incredibly stressful, these networks will be constantly maintained - an eternal and co-work on time, the EU does this somehow to all of us over and if you look at the 15,000 lobbyists and some of the committees there see Staring times more accurate. you get the feeling that at some point, all just stand on their feet. Hardcore lobbying! Follow
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