What’s cooking in Brussels?

Choucroute à la bruxelloise is on this week’s menu. The resignation of Ska Keller, Co-Chair of the European Greens, puts the spotlight on a political group seeking to join the Premier League of European parties. Europe.Table spoke with Philippe Lamberts, who is the group’s sole leader until mid-October.

Philippe Lamberts’ father owned a small company that produced sauerkraut. In Belgium. However, simply taking over the family business did not appeal to him, and certainly not a company that had to rely on the uncertainties of the weather for successful harvests. So he decided to study engineering and later worked at IBM for about 20 years – for those of you who are younger: Back then, IBM enjoyed an aura comparable to that of Apple today.

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