The Great European Rip-Off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful Eu Is Taking Control of Our Lives

ISBN-13: 9781847945709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

David Craig; Matthew Elliott

Opis

It has been estimated that the EU costs around 1,000 billion a year, which translates to an incredible 2000 for every man, woman, and child in Europe. And what does that money provide? Politicians and administrators selflessly working to bring us efficient government? Well-targeted regulations that promote economic prosperity? A safe and free society? A well-protected environment? Help for people in poorer countries? In fact, this money is squandered by a self-serving euro-elite of unaccountable politicians and incompetent bureaucrats, or else devoured in a feeding frenzy of fraud and corruption where a few lucky insiders become unimaginably rich. In addition, the tsunami of regulation pouring out of Brussels is strangling industry, destroying jobs, restricting personal freedom, desecrating the environment, and further impoverishing the developing world. Using their extensive network of insider sources, David Craig and Matthew Elliott smash through the secrecy and disinformation that are the Brussels hallmark to reveal what European rulers are really getting up to. The result is a horrifying story of bureaucracy, hypocrisy, and kleptocracy at the highest levels."

O autorze

David Craig has spent most of his career as a management consultant working for and competing against some of the world's best and worst management and IT systems consultancies. He has helped to sell consulting to almost 100 organisations in 15 countries across Europe, Asia and the US, as well as the British public sector. He is the author of the controversial bestsellers Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine, Plundering the Public Sector, and, most recently, Squandered: How Gordon Brown is Wasting Over One Trillion Pounds of Our Money. He has an MA from Cambridge and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Matthew Elliott is Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, the UK's most high-profile campaign group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and sits on the Advisory Committee of the New Culture Forum. His last book was The Bumper Book of Government Waste 2008 (Harriman House).