{"id":743200,"date":"2026-02-05T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/743200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:10:10","slug":"are-you-smart-enough-to-work-for-the-eu-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/743200\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you smart enough to work for the EU? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-competition-epso-ad-5\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-competition-epso-ad-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elite recruitment competition<\/a> opens Thursday for the first time in seven years. But would you pass it?<\/p>\n<p>The assessment is meant to inject new blood into Brussels\u2019 corridors of power, with successful applicants eligible for roles at grade \u201cAD-5,\u201d which come with a monthly pay packet of between \u20ac5,973 and \u20ac6,758, as well as the chance to progress through the bureaucracy and take up influential roles.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people are expected to take the exam. So take our version of the test and find out if you\u2019d make the grade. Some are based on actual questions and some we\u2019ve made up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s elite recruitment competition opens Thursday for the first time in seven years. But would you pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11576,29,2000,219847,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-743200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brussels-bubble","9":"tag-career","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-eu-staff","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116016068932248404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}