Harassment Allegations and Fear Haunt European Investment Bank
A December suicide sparked concern by employee representatives about the risk of more deaths. The bank says it’s focused on well-being.
The European Investment Bank headquarters, lower left, in Luxembourg.
Photographer: Olivier Matthys/BloombergThe news came as a shock — another suicide at the Luxembourg headquarters of the European Investment Bank, the second on the premises in seven years.
This one, on a cold, wet morning in December, involved a well-liked 51-year-old former semi-pro basketball player who worked as a back-office assistant at the European Union financial institution. Police didn’t give any reason why she jumped from a balcony at the bank. But elected staff representatives who had been talking to management about mental health issues for years, even before an intern fell to her death in the atrium of another building on the campus in 2013, were alarmed.