The best and brightest? Not always for EU leadership jobs

Press quote (The New York Times)
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
06 October 2019

“Sometimes it is a way to reward an ally,” said Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, a senior researcher with the London-based organization Centre for European Reform. “Or it might be a way to send a competitor away for at least five years. Smaller states increasingly send real heavyweights, like former prime ministers.”