The EU staff in Brussels did not like my post of yesterday.
I advised them to read it again. It is more favourable to them than many other
statements we kept hearing throughout the day. Yes, they had again a lot of bad
press today, in many corners of Europe.
And I also gave them another piece of advice, gently: please
be in the office as scheduled, show you respect the working hours.
The point is that the EU bureaucrats have to move away from
the habit of very long weekends. It is quite common to see most of the offices
empty by Friday 11:00 am. And if one goes there and walks the buildings on a
Monday morning, one notes that many staff are still out. They might be about to
arrive at Brussels airport by late morning.
Actually, one gets the impression that there is little work
discipline in many of the EU institutions. And the performance measurement
mechanisms seem to be lacking. The bosses do not appear to be in charge.
Isn’t it time to start looking at these matters?
Having said that, there are people that work pretty hard. Not
everyone is a “professional weekender”.
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