How has the Ispra site survived if its organisation for newcomers is like this ?
A. It almost hasn’t. In AGORA No. 12, Fivos Andritsos wrote “Its performance is regularly under scrutiny, its role is questioned on every possible occassion and its personnel operate in a context of permanent transition at the end of which we cannot see other but the negation of its identity and its gradual elimination”. To which the hassled visiting scientist will probably mutter, “Roll on that happy day. . . “. It is not just the JRC. The Scuola Europae is equally confusing and unhelpful until you arrive and see them in person and the bank behaves as if it has a captive market – which it has.
