THE EPO is in a state of crisis. The Board explicitly says so and a new staff survey makes this abundantly clear. The EPO's management now exploits another crisis in order to distract/divert away from its own. To twist the words from the article above, EPO staff ought to vomit on all these Battistellites who suddenly say they are their friends.
"To twist the words from the article above, EPO staff ought to vomit on all these Battistellites who suddenly say they are their friends."Based on this month's BR TV program (which drives the EPO's management up the wall), the EPO's notorious Stasi-esque unit [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] leads to deaths, but nevertheless, Benoît Battistelli, like a classic Republican politician -- not a professional and charismatic manager -- is quick to take advantage of disasters. Battistelli already paints himself as fighting Nazis and criminals, not people who speak truth or work within a staff union (perfectly legitimate and commendable activity).
Benoît Battistelli is exploiting deaths again (warning: this is a link to epo.org, so consider using the Twitter link instead, even as a referrer/middleman). We surely saw that coming. This seems like a Battistelli tradition as he also did this after the terror attacked in Paris. Watch who signs these messages. This is Battistelli's own mastermind. He blurs the gaps between politics and (what was supposed to be) a public service.
"Battistelli already paints himself as fighting Nazis and criminals, not people who speak truth or work within a staff union (perfectly legitimate and commendable activity)."Fear not Battistelli, ladies and gentleman, he's there to protect you from terrorists (with his unnecessary luxury which is several bodyguards). Or something like that...
"Watch this disturbing reversal of victimhood. Compare that to the WIPO scandal (whistleblowers also)."As a little/short recap, the Administrative Council was stupid enough to accept Battistelli's request to demand from the Board of Appeals that their judge gets dismissed (after all the character assassination against this judge), whereupon the Administrative Council got denied. What a huge embarrassment that was -- and what that surely sheds negative light on Mr. Kongstad. Later on the Administrative Council learned its lesson and no longer even made such a request to the Board of Appeals. There was a rift between the Administrative Council and the Battistellites, at long last.
At that stage, we suppose, the Administrative Council (and Kongstad personally) realised that they were just being the Battistellites' pawns and the judge is likely innocent (recent reports suggest he's now represented by the same lawyer as SUEPO's). Maybe it's Željko Topić, part of Team Battistelli, whom they should be investigating/pressuring, not the judge who allegedly spoke about Topić (allegedly to the Administrative Council too).
Watch this disturbing reversal of victimhood. Compare that to the WIPO scandal (whistleblowers also).
"The EPO is already preparing another misleading event, just like the one it had last year, covered by EPO-sponsored self-censoring "media partners"."We don't know who will be the inventor of the year, but it's possible that in 2016 EPO will be the scandal of the year (in Europe or internationally), following the footsteps of past victors such as BP or Volkswagen.
