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Life of a European Mandarin: Inside the Commission

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'.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 386
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9789020970227
  • Settings
  • European Union
  • Genres
  • politics
  • Release date
  • 2008