While Brussels was shut down by its biggest ever terror alert, the huge EU and NATO bureaucracy kept on churning, even if some staff had to work from their homes in Europe's institutional capital. The headquarters of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation both boosted security after the Belgian government imposed a lockdown on Brussels amid fears of Paris-style attacks. People worked," European Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein said at the glass-and-steel Berlaymont building that houses the executive arm of the EU.
