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By Antoine KREMER, ABBL
Brussel’s Schuman round about and Luxembourg square, home to the EU institutions, are generally areas bustling with activity, people going to or coming from meetings, informal get-togethers in the adjacent bars and simple passersby. For the last week both areas look like a ghost town with the occasional car driving by. Lockdown is what keeps the restaurants and bars closed and teleworking empties the streets of the usual crowds. If people are working from home and lawmakers and officials are not supposed to gather, what keeps the EU’s democratic decision-making going?
Although not the heart of European democracy, the Commission is the machinery that churns out any legislative or other initiative. Without it, work would...
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