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Manufacturer: Editions Lannoo sa
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9789020970227
ISBN: 9020970224
Label: Editions Lannoo sa
Manufacturer: Editions Lannoo sa
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 386
Publication Date: 2007-08-31
Publisher: Editions Lannoo sa
Studio: Editions Lannoo sa
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For more than seven years, Derk-Jan Eppink worked as a senior official behind the scenes in the European Commission. The Commission is not well-known to the general public, but makes decisions which affect the daily lives of almost half a billion Europeans. Now that he has left the Commission to take up a new job in New York, Eppink looks back on his time in Europe. Eppink's book gives the reader a rare and ironic glimpse of life in Europe's corridors of power. In his inimitable style, he sketches a portrait of the 'European Mandarins', the European Commission's senior administrators, of whom a German Euro-Commissioner recently said 'they have too much power and are too little controlled'.
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Summary: Highly recommended as a beginners guide
Comment: To an EU novice, this is a highly illuminating book, giving a fairly good sense of what the EU is (at the institutional level, at least). The book is a loose series of personal memories of his time as a (somewhat sceptical) EU Commission insider, lightly arranged to guide the reader gently into the labyrinth. This humane and story-led approach leaves the reader with a much more vivid and memorable impression of these arcane institutions than a formal description could hope to do. There's humour and a sense of fun (and perhaps a little too much whimsy) but the mixture makes for a very accessible intro to the EU.
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