Pudding, proof of

Pudding, proof of

This morning we had the usual coordination meeting at Directors’ level and then, this afternoon, a meeting of the Political Monitoring Group (PMG) which oversees the joint services that the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions share. I won’t bore you again with my personal view about the revolutionary and pioneering nature of this sharing arrangement but I think the success of it is a tribute to the goodwill on all sides and at all levels to make it work, and to make it work well. The PMG is there to provide oversight but it is also there to deal with any problems that bubble up to it because they couldn’t be resolved at services level. So far, no major problems have bubbled up and that is the proof, as they say, of the pudding.