The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives

David Craig,Matthew Elliott

The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornerstone
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 March 2009
Pages
336
ISBN
9781847945709

The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives

David Craig,Matthew Elliott

In this EU election year, it’s time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name. It has been estimated that the EU costs us around GBP1,000 billion a year - an incredible GBP2000 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So what do we get for our money? 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? Or is our money being 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 at our expense? And is the tsunami of regulation pouring out of Brussels in reality 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 our European rulers are really getting up to. The result is a horrifying story of bureaucracy, hypocrisy and kleptocracy - and how we are all suffering as a result.

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