Work and (role) play in Bruges - 12 April 2012
After staying for a year in the Department of Health’s EU team, last summer I was seconded to the College of Europe in Belgium to study for a Master’s in European politics. The scholarship is part of the Civil Service’s overall aim to get civil servants up to scratch on EU knowledge and foreign languages, so that we have a fair chance at succeeding at the entry exams to join the EU Institutions. It was all fabulous when I arrived, I live in one of the ...Read More
EU Policy - 15 February 2011
I am currently working in the EU team at the Department of Health; it’s been a great place for me to start the European Fast Stream (EFS). I’m getting a feel of all the different EU work across the Department and seeing how it all fits together when our Minister has a bilateral meeting with the European Commissioner for Health or attends Health Council meetings with Ministers from the other Member States of the EU. For the past few months, I have been ...Read More