My counterpart at the Committee of the Regions, Gerhard Stahl, and I had invited Harald Romer, the outgoing Secretary General of the European Parliament to lunch to say thank you and wish him well. There was much choice gossip, none of which I can repeat, of course, and considerable learned discussion about interinstitutional developments. On a personal note, Harald explained that he will be making a clean break from Brussels, after a distinguished 27-year European career, heading back to Copenhagen. I much admire this and wonder whether, frankly, I’d be able to do it.
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