Category: News
Date: 14.06.2005
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Alix Kroeger is joining the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Brussels bureau as a reporter covering the EU institutions.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service newsroom reporter said: "I'm really looking forward to starting in this job at a time of intense debate about the European Union. Everything is up for discussion: its budget, its size, its purpose.
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"The next two years will be critical, and it's important that people have as much information as possible about what goes on inside the European Union and its institutions."
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She will take up her new position in September.
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Kroeger was a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ stringer in Sarajevo for two years
(2000-2002), when she also reported from Serbia and Croatia.
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She has also reported from Germany, Austria, Romania,
the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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In 2002 she worked as a regional analyst in the European
Specialist Unit at the World Service.
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In 2003, she completed a short placement at Germany's
DeutschlandRadio, covering the referendums on EU membership in the Czech
Republic and Slovakia and the drafting of the EU constitution.
