To a garden party with various bigwigs in the evening. One of these brought confirmation that carving knives are seriously out in the Council’s budget committee. This is as expected and entirely as it should be. As one of the delegations stated during my grilling a few weeks ago, in such times no institution should assume, let alone expect, continued growth. The problems will come in translating the expected cuts back into practical consequences for the Committee’s political and administrative activities but, then, that’s what Secretaries-General are for…
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