No news is good economics

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Series Details 17/04/97, Volume 3, Number 15
Publication Date 17/04/1997
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Date: 17/04/1997

The long-awaited restructuring of the European Commission's information nerve-centre, DGX, is under way.

Anxious officials have been braced for this for some time and many, frankly, are just glad that the phoney war is over.

The far-reaching consequences are still being analysed in coffee bars and restaurants a gossip's throw from the Commission's Breydel headquarters in the wake of new Director-General Spyros Pappas' decision to cancel the newspapers for some of his staff in a dramatic cost-cutting move.

The bombshell hit DGX employees when they returned to their desks after the Easter break.

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