Some radical ideas on policy communication

A lot of policy communication in Brussels is a variation of passive-aggressive shouting, Euro-fetish blandness or hinges on the belief that telepathy exists. Attached are some slides from a recent conversation on an alternative approach and how you can transfer this to letter writing (of which there is too much of) and external meetings. You … Read more

Don’t send in the Anglo-Saxons

In 1997, I learned that a race known as ‘Anglo-Saxons’ were alive, and they were not to be trusted. I was meeting some officials in DG Fisheries (as it then was) for WWF, asking why the EU was giving so many subsidies to large distant water fishing vessels. They stopped that practice. The meeting had … Read more