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-The European Commission is the administration of the European Union. It has many of the tasks of a government, but is not elected; instead, the commissioners (ministers) are appointed by the nation states on the basis of complicated proportional representation. In addition, there are the 30,000 civil servants. They are officials of the Commission and form the engine room of the EU administration. The crew that drives the ship. Under the command of changing officers, but necessarily largely independent in their day-to-day work. They are employees of the Commission, not of the nation states. The officials from the United Kingdom will also remain here despite Brexit.\\+The European Commission is the administration of the European Union. It has many of the tasks of a government, but is not elected; instead, the commissioners (ministers) are appointed by the nation states on the basis of complicated proportional representation. In addition, there are the 30,000 civil servants. They are officials of the Commission and form the engine room of the EU administration. The crew that drives the ship - under the command of changing officers, but necessarily largely independent in their day-to-day work. They are employees of the Commission, not of the nation states. The officials from the United Kingdom will also remain here despite Brexit.\\
  
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 We meet two officials from the "Mobility" and "Climate" directorates on the study tour. They tell us about the tasks of the Commission, about which aspects and how Europe is governed from this headquarters. I only get an idea of how complicated the structures are that manoeuvre between national and supranational responsibilities. Both officials have been here for decades, and I think I can hear in the overtones: the two are not overwhelmed, weary or aimless. They see themselves as part of an institution that has now been around for a long time and that works in principle. They speak of models, probabilities and of very long-term developments that escape the public eye and day-to-day politics. I ask both of them about the dwindling enthusiasm for the European Union among the populations of the nation states. They don't seem to understand me and talk about regulations being implemented and that there would be no major problems with that. Perhaps I did not formulate my question well? Or maybe it is just that their gaze is fixed on a point on the distant horizon, overlooking the near surroundings? There is something in that that I find reassuring, I am surprised to realise.\\ We meet two officials from the "Mobility" and "Climate" directorates on the study tour. They tell us about the tasks of the Commission, about which aspects and how Europe is governed from this headquarters. I only get an idea of how complicated the structures are that manoeuvre between national and supranational responsibilities. Both officials have been here for decades, and I think I can hear in the overtones: the two are not overwhelmed, weary or aimless. They see themselves as part of an institution that has now been around for a long time and that works in principle. They speak of models, probabilities and of very long-term developments that escape the public eye and day-to-day politics. I ask both of them about the dwindling enthusiasm for the European Union among the populations of the nation states. They don't seem to understand me and talk about regulations being implemented and that there would be no major problems with that. Perhaps I did not formulate my question well? Or maybe it is just that their gaze is fixed on a point on the distant horizon, overlooking the near surroundings? There is something in that that I find reassuring, I am surprised to realise.\\
  
-In the evening, we meet a few staff members of MPs, they tell us about their work and their convictions. I feel the wind of change in our times, but it feels different here, so close to the decisions. Our conversations are strangely concrete, determined and at the same time cautious, as if words could have consequences here.\\+In the evening, we meet a few staff members of MEPs, they tell us about their work and their convictions. I feel the wind of change in our times, but it feels different here, so close to the decisions. Our conversations are strangely concrete, determined and at the same time cautious, as if words could have consequences here.\\
  
  
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 Pawel in Krakow calls this attitude the subsidiary heart of the West.  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity |Subsidiarity]] here means: the individual has significance, rights and dignity vis-à-vis the state and the community. This is a very short definition for the essence of the "West" and its distinction from the emerging authoritarian systems in the world. One can also say "liberal conception of man".\\ Pawel in Krakow calls this attitude the subsidiary heart of the West.  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity |Subsidiarity]] here means: the individual has significance, rights and dignity vis-à-vis the state and the community. This is a very short definition for the essence of the "West" and its distinction from the emerging authoritarian systems in the world. One can also say "liberal conception of man".\\
  
-I see the message of this freedom in the architectural ensemble in the European Quarter. Under the simultaneous desire for a message of powerful self-confidence.\\  +I see the message of this freedom in the architectural ensemble in the European Quarter. But at the same time, a powerful self-confidence should be radiated.\\  
-I feel a little sorry for the buildings because of the wide balancing act they have to perform in their outward appearance. But I now gladly forgive them for their exaggerated grandiosity. And by the way: the "insect hotel" is actually an ambitious ecological urban greening.\\+I feel a little sorry for the buildings because of the wide balancing act they have to perform in their outward appearance. But I now gladly forgive them for their exaggerated grandiosity. And by the way: the "insect hotel" is actually part of an ambitious ecological Urban Greening Plan.\\
  
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