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This should be complusory reading for all those who believe that the Lisbon Treaty should not be allowed to rest there, even after it has been ratified. --The Lord Tebbitt CH
Her book reads like a chilling cross between two Kafka novels, The Trial and The Castle... shocking --Christopher Booker
This book exposes who the masters of corruption are... An excellent expose of the corrupt undemocratic EU. --Matthew Davies
Her book reads like a chilling cross between two Kafka novels, The Trial and The Castle... shocking --Christopher Booker
This book exposes who the masters of corruption are... An excellent expose of the corrupt undemocratic EU. --Matthew Davies
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How the EU treated its chief accountant when she refused to go along with its fraud and waste.
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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Brussels Laid Bare (Paperback)
This book is a short (125 pages) diary-like record of the author's recruitment as Budget Execution Director and Chief Accountant of the EU, her attempts to reform inadequate accounting and their obstruction by European civil servants and EU commissioners, and her dismissal by the EU.
Most of the European civil servants' names have been changed, either because of libel laws or because the author says she still hopes for legal redress. In particular one Jean Maison, Director General of the Budget Directorate, who if the author is to be believed, would appear to be a Sir Humphrey gone very bad indeed. This is an individual's record, and you must decide whether to take it at face value or write it off as a whinge (or perhaps somewhere in between.) The author's repeated and simple list of her department's failings and her attempts to reform them seemed intelligent and clear and I believe them. I doubt we will see a rebuttal; one of the central points of the book is that the EU bureacracy would only fight on its terms. Furthermore you can learn more about this complicated, and complicatedly dull, organisation in this short book than from much longer, impersonal volumes. I found myself wondering whether the EU can ever work. The secrecy is outrageous. The unelected Commission, formed of failed and mediocre careerists like Neil Kinnock, operating in secret, proposes laws. A supine parliament (whose prostration will be partly due to incomes so massive they could be called bribes) sometimes has the power to examine and approve these laws. How can a continent that fought a war that was at least indirectly about democracy allow such a thing? One gets the feeling that these things are unreformable. Shouldn't the EU, with the power it has now and that which it is now taking without national vetos, be reformed into elected President/Excutive, Legislature, with courts that act as such instead of informal means of refining and extending EU powers? This book gives a clear picture of how the self-serving duopoly of Commission and EU Civil Service could easily obstruct and prevent reform whilst promissing the opposite; but then think of the nations' horse trading (over for example the Common Agriculture Policy, 50 years old and bigger and more complex than ever,) the near absence of proper reporting, the publics' laziness and distraction and the national jealousies and obsessions of all of the above. Incidentally the author is now an MEP for the UK Independence Party. That's all very ironic, but best possible luck to her grilling the EU accountants anew. My money would be on the parliament freezing her out again, by whatever means they can cook up.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Whistle blowers beware,
By Prof J E McLACHLAN "Jeff McLachlan" (CURRIE, Midlothian United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brussels Laid Bare (Paperback)
This is an amazing story. Amazing because someone who discovered fraud, cheating and simple theft in the European Commission was hounded out of her job and the perpetrators got off.
It seems as though theft is encouraged in large organisations and nobody is allowed to question it. As the Commission has a long history of uncertified accounmts by their auditors, surely SOME people should be investigating. This money which is being STOLEN is OUR money folks - why can no politician stand up and be counted? Is there nobody who is honest these days? Time to get politicians to be accountable.
48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent expose of the corrupt, undemocratic EU.,
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A book that gives an insiders view on how career politicians have conspired to create an elite club. A club where they feast upon taxpayers money and do very little other than feather their own nests.
You thought the Westminster crooks were bad, but this book exposes who the masters of corruption are. Indeed, it is probably because of the EU's malign influence, that our own domestic political class have become to corrupt. Enough is enough. The author is a brave corruption buster and must be wished well in her efforts to get inside the beast and expose it even more. Let's hope she wins with UKIP, so that a further expose can be written and help bring the whole rotten structure.
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