*This article was published in November 2021 in response to promises made during Brussels, Karlsruhe and Ispra elections. Here are the Karlsruhe 2021 results.*
On allowances to cover the additional costs of teleworking and other promises
It is election time for many sites of the Commission and there are two unmistakable signs for this:
- Your inbox is filling with largely indistinguishable e-mails asking to vote for union X or union Y, because they have done SO MUCH for you in the last year (although for some of them, you cannot remember ever having seen any action or results).
- The e-mails contain a hodgepodge of measures that they are demanding, often defying any sense of reality: unicorns, rainbows, a guaranteed lottery win …
Latest update 24/11/2021: Work Done!!! (quote from DG HR communication: “…the minimum presence of one day per week will for now be only on a voluntary basis…”)
*Update 23.11.2023 What is a 
*Update 09.10.2023 please participate in the Commission survey on the 
*Update 18.11.2021: this includes 
Almost 18 years after the drastic 
Want to start imagining and planning your transition towards retirement – but not sure how to do it? This is no longer a destination, but a journey.
*Update 13.03.2023 here are the results of our 
Many of you wonder, since there is no legal basis for 
The mediation service has published its 