Hidden down a residential road in Loughlinstown in south Dublin is perhaps not where you would expect to find one of the European Union’s oldest agencies. Far from the stuffy halls of Brussels, Berlin or Paris, is the base of Eurofound, where the loudest noise one can hear is a woman cutting the hedges in her garden on a quiet Tuesday morning when The Currency pays a visit. Eurofound, or the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, to use its full title, does not have a massive profile, but its work for the last 51 years…

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