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The Irish everlasting illustration to the EU’s transition workforce initially reached out to incoming commissioners by electronic mail, reasonably than setting conferences or leveraging relationships with key decision-makers, three officers mentioned.
Two officers mentioned senior diplomats ought to have performed a bigger position in negotiations, reasonably than leaving talks to the everlasting illustration and to McGrath’s workforce.
No grasp plan
An official concerned in negotiations for jobs within the cupboards of incoming commissioners informed POLITICO that the method general was way more chaotic than anticipated, and that “no nation has a grasp plan.”
They mentioned transition groups within the everlasting representations had fewer employees than anticipated, needed to navigate altering guidelines round cupboard hiring, and needed to meet particular standards round gender, age, expertise and rank inside the EU civil service.
EU political teams additionally exerted important strain throughout the negotiations, whereas negotiating groups needed to accommodate the preferences of incoming commissioners, and of the Commission departments they’d be connected to, which modified the panorama once more, the official mentioned.
Ireland is anxious by the decline within the variety of its officers within the EU establishments, warning in a nationwide technique on the difficulty of a future “demographic cliff” within the variety of its staffers as “many” senior officers retire.
In the technique, the federal government mentioned Ireland is “considerably under-represented” at entry and mid-management ranges throughout the EU establishments, and that the numbers will “fall dramatically over the subsequent decade until motion is taken now.”
