Maybe it was a coincidence - or just the continuation of fiction by other means.
Just as the author of the first novel about the EU was in Brussels, the bloc's most eye-catching civil servant was hitting the headlines (and even made it on to a Dutch satirical TV show).
Robert Menasse, whose novel Die Haupstadt (The Ca...
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