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Brussels Laid Bare Paperback – January 1, 2009

by Marta Andreasen (Author)
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For a while others have attempted to reveal what is going on in the rotten heart of Brussels, there has been no one at the level of Marta Andreasen, who was the Chief Accountant responsible for the whole of the EU budget.

As recompense for her efforts to make the EU’s finances transparent and accountable, the corrupt Brussels apparat set out first to silence, then to humiliate and finally to destroy her.

Possibly no other case shows more clearly how the EU, through stealth, deceit and bullying has become a modern tyranny.
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  1. Print length
    135 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    St Edwards Press Ltd
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2009
  5. ISBN-10
    095541881X
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0955418815
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St Edwards Press Ltd; Second edition (January 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 135 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 095541881X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0955418815
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

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Brian Pickering
4.0 out of 5 stars The EU is Social Security for politicians
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2009
Marta Andreasen is an accountant who says the EU doesn't account for the money it disburses to the projects it approves and she has first hand evidence. She ought to have taken advice on the way her story is written but I cannot argue with the facts she presents. If we want to be ruled by a junta of spendthrift rogues everyone should know how they manage matters, if we don't, we may care to consider what we get out of this monstrous confidence trick. Neither of these alternatives will make you sleep better at nights and so I suppose her story will fall on deaf ears as bad news is never welcome. But you have to read this book if you are a European citizen, if only to discover why no-one knows where your money is going and who is lying about it.
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JB
5.0 out of 5 stars good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2024
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good read
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jmg
5.0 out of 5 stars Jede EU Bürger sollte dies Lesen!
Reviewed in Germany on June 16, 2021
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Zeigt wie korrupt und hinterlistig die EU Beamten sind, und leider nicht gerichtlich zu fassen zu bekommen!
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ANTHONY
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in Australia on March 14, 2020
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It's a book and gives an insight into what really was going on.
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Steve
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent exposé of the machinations of the EU
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2024
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Well worth reading to see what goes on behind the walls of the EU.
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A. Crabtree
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2009
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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.
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