Berlaymont
€ Because of the crisis is the curved high-rise building of the European Commission in recent times a very popular background for correspondent reports from Brussels.
Berlaymont : The name of the house for 3,000 people from 27 states is reminiscent of a demolished convent at this point. The Tower of Babel is also a huge art museum, anywhere depend on loan national art collections and cultural institutions on the walls. At the daily press conference, the speakers talk of Commissioners and the journalists by their first names, a friendly ritual that you are in Berlin you can imagine not so. In background discussions, the EU-employees are very talkative, but always "off record": to quote only the carefully weighed Communications Commission. The European spirit of the house is also in the toilets. "Katalunya is a nation, Spain is a fiction" an anonymous writer has scrawled on a door frame. Among them is a different color: "Nation is a fiction".
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