![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As most of us do not know any senior EU civil servants and quite likely imagine them, probably not entirely inaccurately, to be stuffy, pompous and devoid of humour or charm, he can mock them, not just for their devotion to the cause but also for their different national foibles and for their total self-interest. Menasse falls partially into this trap though partially gets out of it by focussing his story on senior EU civil servants. ![]() The problem with satire is that when you satirise something like the EU or, indeed, people like Boris Johnson or Donald Trump, there is a grave risk that reality will be both funnier and more preposterous than your satire. do something that was not needed, not wanted, served no useful purpose and would cost money. One of the main reasons for believing it is that it was not entirely unlikely that the EU would do such a thing, i.e. This was, of course, like most of what he says, an outright lie. The current prime minister of the United Kingdom, in the days when he was a (sort of) journalist, famously claimed that the EU was to ban bendy bananas and require all bananas to be straight. Home » Austria » Robert Menasse » Die Hauptstadt (Capital) Robert Menasse: Die Hauptstadt (Capital) ![]()
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