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Brussels, the Gentle Monster: or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
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The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU’s policies feels remote to its citizens, yet the influence of its decisions can extend worldwide and throughout the global marketplace. In this timely and insightful essay, Hans
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Hardcover, 81 pages
Published
November 15th 2011
by Seagull Books
(first published March 14th 2011)
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This short essay was written in 2011 and rehearses familiar criticisms with regard to how the European project is taking shape through the EU: technocratic hubris and overstretch, bureaucratic meddling, collusion with financial interests, democratic deficit. Enzensberger’s argument pivots on Arendt’s dictum that ‘bureaucracies may be more threatening to freedom and civility than the most outrageous of past tyrannies’. He may well be right. And as the costs of the intrinsic dumbness of troika bur
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"The answer to Victor Hessel", is what is written on the back of this booklet. Nothing is less true. This is a largely populist pamphlet in which all the flat criticism on the European construction is gathered. Not that there is no criticism to be made on Europe, but the level of the argumentation in this booklet is really below all standards. I prefer the inspired indignation of a 93-year-old!
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És un llibre interessant i sincer, amb una posició clara en contra de tot allò que representa la burocràcia de la Unió Europea pel ciutadà comú. Tot i que potser l’anàlisi que fa no és del tot rigurós o imparcial, no és pas l’objectiu d’un llibre que sembla ser més una declaració d’intencions que un tractat polític. Algunes reflexions són interessants, d’altres s’obliden aviat. El que queda és la denuncia d’unes institucions teocràtiques que dirigeixen els ciutadans d’Europa com si fóssim nens p
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In neun Kapitel eine essayistische und aufeinander aufbauende Entwicklung der Kritik an der als Europa bezeichneten europäischen Union, ihrer kulturellen wie politischen Praxis. Diese Kritik, deren eher amüsanter Teil die berühmten Verordnungen zu der Normierung diverser Pflanzen sind, bleibt dabei nicht an Manöverkritik von Phänomenen, sondern greift tiefer in deren Menschenbild und deren Vorstellung von Staatsverfassung. Schön formuliert und im Kontext eingebettet: Damit ist sie [die EU] zwar
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Solo rescato el sarcasmo. Liviano y ramplón. Incluso deja pasar las críticas correctas. Flojito.
Mar 15, 2015
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Lidt for generel i sin kritik. Essensen af kritikken er berettiget, men bogen berigede mig ikke med ny viden og indsigt.
Här finns vissa poänger men i det stora hela känns det mest flummigt och spretigt och det känns inte som jag hade så mycket ut av att läsa boken, men det gick snabbt med bara ca 95 sidor.
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