It comes with a fancy tax-free salary, a mansion in central Brussels, an armour-plated limousine and a squad of bodyguards.
For two hours we've been watching the Belgian police play cat and mouse with this group of English fans, and finally they trapped them in the narrow streets near the Grand Place in Central Brussels, then they charged and attacked them.
They have yielded powers not just to Brussels, but to independent central banks (for 11 of them, to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt), and to sub-national governments in their own regions.
Last year, legislators in Brussels agreed to give the European Central Bank regulatory powers over eurozone banks.
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The 44-year-old is in favor of a banking union -- a proposal from Brussels which would give the European Central Bank a supervisory role for more than 6, 000 eurozone banks.
Since Mr. Orban swept to power after a landslide electoral victory in 2010, Hungary and the EU have clashed over a broad range of issues, from media freedom to central-bank independence, with Brussels filing several cases against Hungary at the European Court of Justice.
Pancras International station in central London with Paris in just 2 hours 15 minutes and Brussels in 1 hour 51 minutes.
The BBC's Central Europe analyst Jan Repa says that in Paris, Berlin and Brussels, the Kaczynskis tend to be seen as prickly, unsophisticated, provincial nationalists.
France and Britain are, however, probably excluded: the first because it had Mr Delors, and because it made such a fuss over the central bank, and the second because it has become an unwritten rule in Brussels that only a country in the single currency can supply the commission's president.
As the European Union's leaders prepared to choose in Brussels which countries would qualify for the single currency , a row over who would head the planned European Central Bank shook the markets' faith in the future currency's credibility.
New alarming forecasts of Greece's escalating debt, made by experts working for the so-called "troika" of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF - and which have been presented to European leaders and finance ministers meeting in Brussels this weekend - cannot be seen in any other way.
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