The duty to tell

'As well as doing their job, I think it is part of everyone's job to explain what they are doing. The public pays our salaries and for the running of this place and, in my view, everyone has the duty to tell and to be available to the outside public. I know people are very busy and that in some areas we are very understaffed; but what does it help if the world out there doesn't know that!'
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
recently retired Director of Communication, Media and Services
European Commission