A nice evening out with the promise of a good read at the end!

Open Europe

Invites you to a book launch and talk:

From euroscepticism to eurorealism

with Derk-Jan Eppink, MEP

Wednesday 30 June, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Room 1, House of Lords, SW1A 2PW

During the talk, Derk-Jan Eppink will present and discuss his new book Bonfire of Bureaucracy in Europe.

Derk-Jan Eppink is a Dutch journalist turned Belgian politician, currently serving as an MEP for the List Dedecker party - a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group. Derk-Jan has previously worked as Cabinet Secretary for European Commissioners Frits Bolkestein (1999-2004) and Siim Kallas (2004-2007). In 2007 Eppink published Life of a European Mandarin, which provided a glimpse into life at the European Commission.

In Derk-Jan's new book, Bonfire of Bureaucracy in Europe, he describes how the EU's obsessive focus on "ever closer union", neglecting its core tasks such as the single market, has led to the debt crisis which is now engulfing the continent and tempting its leaders to consider taxes at the EU level.