Catherine Day: The European Union is still a work in progress, and each generation will bring its view of the future to its construction
Working in different jobs in the commission over the years brought me to many different places. I have been in the White House and the Kremlin, in the Élysée Palace and 10 Downing Street. From the highs of meeting world leaders and European royalty I have also seen the lows of bombed-out towns and meeting refugees in Palestine and Bosnia.
I hope that other young Irish people will see it as a dream job for a new generation and bring their energy and ideas to the next stages of this great adventure In 1996 I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to work on the biggest enlargement the EU has ever undertaken. Like the rest of the world I had followed every news bulletin that documented the fall of communism and celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here at last was an opportunity for Europe to right the wrongs of the second World War and to unite a divided continent.
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