Lenka de Mauro remembers the images she saw on television as a 9-year-old: In the winter of 1989, students rattling bunches of keys symbolically heralded the end of socialism in Czechoslovakia and opened the way to Europe. Today, 34 years later, de Mauro herself works in Brussels, the heart of European politics. She represents the interests of the German insurance industry in the European Union; her official title is Head of European and International Affairs. She sees herself as an „EU mediator“: in Brussels, she makes it clear what the German insurers want when it comes to new laws. In Berlin, she makes it clear what European institutions expect from German insurers.