30 January, 2012

Summit strike

Happily, today's European summit - yes, another one! - will take place amid a general strike in Belgium. There won't be a bus (not that these guys travel by bus) or a taxi or even a plate of turbot and a glass of Gewurztraminer.

That should, at least, keep it short.

The guys in the Justus Lipsius building won't care or understand much about ordinary people, though. They have secured for themselves decent salaries, wonderful pensions and a couple of weeks fully paid in a spa if the stress gets too much.

All these other people are required to do is pay for it.

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