Eppink, Derk Jan

Bonfire of Bureaucracy in Europe

<a href='http://www.e-boek.org/store/bonfire-bureaucracy-europe-p-186495.html'>Ook verkrijgbaar als e-boek</a> <a href='http://itunes.apple.com/be/book/bonfire-bureaucracy-in-europe/id473215454?l=nl&mt=11'>Ook verkrijgbaar in de iBookstore</a> In 2009, the Dutchman Derk Jan Eppink was elected to the European Parliament to represent Flanders. He was already well-acquainted with Europe's institutions, thanks to his previous experience as an assistant in the European Parliament, as a journalist (NRC Handelsblad, De Standaard), and as a member of the cabinet staff of European Commissioners Frits Bolkestein and Siim Kallas. From the perspective of a real insider, Eppink views the major changes currently taking place in Europe and conducts his own enquiry into the mental state of the European elite. Power in Europe is not vested in people, but in a political-bureaucratic complex which functions all by itself. The European ideal is bureaucratised, while the European institutional elite is becoming ever more isolate