A summer reading list for Brussels’s bureaucrats
The future of Europe in one giant pile of beach reading
“HOW hard it is to escape from places,” Katherine Mansfield, an author from New Zealand, once wrote to a friend. She had a point, but long paid holidays and low-cost airlines do help. To judge by the tumbleweed blowing through the offices and halls of Brussels this week, the wallahs of the European Union have not found fleeing town too much of a wrench.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Brussels bookshelf”
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