The centre of power in Brussels has temporarily moved to the ninth floor of the so-called Charlemagne building in the EU district.
There, in a nondescript grey hallway guarded by security officers, pinned up pieces of paper with arrows guide vistors to the “President-elect Jean Claude Juncker” team.
“We’ve put them up to make him laugh,” says Martin Selmayr, Juncker's chief of staff.
Juncker is protocol-averse and insists on being called “Jean-Claude”, Selmayr told this web...
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