David O'Sullivan, Eurocrat-in-chief.(chef de cabinet to European Commission's Romano Prodi)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, July, 1999
"YOU have to be an optimist to work in the European Commission," says David O'Sullivan, an Irishman who has already put in 20 years tramping its corridors. During the next five years, as chef de cabinet for Romano Prodi, the commission's new boss, he should have a chance to fulfil some of his hopes. While the convivial Mr Prodi will roam the world as a kind of would-be pan-European prime minister, Mr O'Sullivan will be beavering away in Brussels as chief gate-keeper, string-puller, arm-twister, deal-broker. Behind the scenes, his influence will be enormous. If he had his way, what kind of commission--and what kind of Europe--would he help to create?
Most ordinary Europeans have never thought much of the commission, the EU's...
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