Last autumn, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU carried out an in depth study among and of Brussels correspondents on their work, their working conditions and their professional expectations. Main objective was to gain insight into how correspondents perceive their work and that of the press services of the EU institutions, amidst all the developments of recent years. This has been particularly reinforced by the corona pandemic, which has profoundly changed the way in which journalists report from Brussels.