Where I began
Well, all right, I am exaggerating just slightly. Still, this was a heavy but very productive Monday. Pre-session Mondays are always hectic. The usual Directors’ meeting starts earlier and is followed by what we call a ‘pre-session’ meeting, bringing together all of the services involved in the preparation for the plenary session. As Secretary General, I chair both meetings. In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where I begun my career, there was one such meeting very early every morning (it was called the ‘morning mass’), and somehow the pre-session always brings back memories of those ‘morning masses’, with the then Secretary General, Sir John Priestman, as the High Priest, murmuring intonations.
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