The new NATO headquarters under construction in Brussels. Reuters
Risk for Rasmussen: New NATO Headquarters in Financial Trouble -- Fidelius Schmid and Christoph Schult, Spiegel Online
NATO is building a new headquarters for one billion euros. But the construction consortium is in financial difficulties and the project is at risk of being halted. It's an embarrassment for outgoing NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a man who attaches a lot of importance to his public image. The Danish secretary general of NATO likes to be filmed while out jogging with his bodyguards in the morning, and he's always bronzed and impeccably dressed.
His term ends in the summer and he is reported to have already compiled a list of achievements in the "Rasmussen era" for presentation to the NATO summit in September. The message will be that Rasmussen has prepared the Western defense alliance for the challenges of the future with a structural reform and a new strategic concept.
Rasmussen wants this modernization to be symbolized by the move into a new headquarters -- away from the aging, Cold War-era concrete complex and into a gigantic palace of steel and glass on the other side of the street in the Brussels suburb of Evere.
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My Comment: What a mess. And on top of that .... the new building looks like a large and strange hockey arena and not as a place that will be NATO's HQ.
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