a Neunreither book
I don’t mean to be grim, but I could not help but notice that Karlheinz Neunreither (29.01.31 – 14.11.09) has passed away. Most of my readers will have no idea who Neunreither was but many older officials in the European Parliament and in the Secretariat General of the European Commission will recall that Neunreither, a parliamentary official, gave his name to the Group he created and in which many of us spent quite a lot of time. The Group, a simple idea, brought together officials from the Commission, Parliament and Council and began to meet on a monthly basis to monitor progress in legislative activities and to try to anticipate and resolve difficulties. The Group still meets, though it is no longer known by his name, but those of us who study or write about the institutions (as Neunreither did himself) will nevertheless remember his creation as an early example of effective interinstitutional cooperation.
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