Sustainability was a key theme runningthrough Eurobat's annual forum,held this year in Berlin,and the conference venue provided the perfect backdrop for delegates’deliberations.The centrepiece of the Radisson Blu Hotel is a huge cylindrical aquarium soaring several storeys high from behind the lobby bar and which is home to a host of tropical fish.Here was a reminder,if needed at all,that the ebb and flow of the fortunes of Europe's battery Thomas Bareiss,ministerial aide industry is,particularly at this time,every bit as fragile as that of the marine environment.At one point,a frogman was spotted inside the massive tank,presumably on cleaning duty rather than having been dropped in as a morsel of appetising human sushi forthe aquarium's inhabitants.The journalist in me jotted down some humorous(at least by my standards)puns-all potential headlines to cast into my article when it came to reel off my report of the event.’In at the deep end',was one.Perhaps appropriate forthe keynote speaker,Thomas Bareiss.
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