![]() ![]() It is, after all, the EU’s powerful (and unelected) “enforcer.” Susman is an EU idealist (and an Austrian intellectual) and thus believes that any such “jubilee” should celebrate the commission’s foundational idea(l). Such a jubilee seems direly needed because, in sharp contrast to the positive poll ratings of the EU Council, president, and Parliament, the EU Commission has gotten a bad rap. When her department is tasked with coming up with a “big jubilee” sort of affair to celebrate the commission’s “birthday,” she thus quickly hands this down to subordinate Martin Susman. While becoming head of this department had been a promotion in position and title for Fenia Xenopoulou, Culture is beneath her ambitions. Our leading bureaucrats are mostly in the lowly Directorate-General of Communication, indeed, in its lowliest Department of Culture. Such infighting makes for brilliant bureaucratic satire as does the status seeking. Within the EU Commission, pork “belonged” to three different directorates-general the live pig to AGRI the ham, sausage, ribs, etc. The biggest pork importer, China, refuses to deal with the EU, preferring to play countries off against one another. Pigs are also at the center of an economic issue bedeviling the EU. ![]() ![]() We meet The Capital’s main characters in a central Brussels plaza where they are trying to get out of the way of a runaway pig creating havoc. ![]()
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