Reports about European Commission plans to adjust the salaries of its officials and reduce staffing levels raise some concerns. On wages and salaries, the European Commission has been urging countries to drop or reform wage indexation systems, not least in Belgium, where most EU officials live and work. It is therefore odd to read that [...]
Fewer EU officials preaching water and drinking wine (in increasingly pricey Brussels restaurants)?
01/07/2011 by
Incautious Statements and/or Bad Journalism give wrong Message on Wages
21/02/2011 by
It is hard to know whether ECB President Trichet is more to blame or the Reuters reporters. But what is clear is that a wrong message is sent on the key issue of wages by reports such as this one, which muddles up a number of issues. President Trichet is correct, in principle, to stress [...]
From Good-Bad to Bad-Bad
08/02/2011 by
Recent proposals to reform European economic governance – discussed in more detail here and here – have been ambiguous. Simplifying heroically, they can be summed up as being largely positive in terms of process, but mixed or downright negative in terms of content. Clearly the European semester, the proposed surveillance of macroeconomic imbalances involved a [...]
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