Public servicesunder pressure?

摘要

Around 10 years ago, during the height of the Gulf War, US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld memorably ruminated during a press conference about the intelligence available to forces attacking Saddam Hussein's Iraq: 'There are known knowns; there are things we know we know,' Mr Rumsfeld began. 'We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.' The vexed and highly politically charged issue of migration from those parts of eastern European which have recently joined the European Union falls into the known unknowns.