What is the difference between “missions” inside and outside Europe ?
A. For a mission outside Europe you get the hotel paid for at cost as well as getting a giornaliera. Mission’s outside Europe require more signatures and take longer to arrange, but if your Section has a good secretary, and you have someone knowledgeable and persistent at the JRC arranging things for you, it is possible to leave on a mission to the USA on your second day as a Visiting Scientist if you asked several weeks beforehand. So far as anyone knows, this has been done only once (by me).
