Download or read book Brussels Bureaucrats? written by Anne Stevens and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "civil service" of the European Union is little known. This book provides an accessible account of the administration of the EU and answers questions such as: What are the formal structures like?; How and why have they evolved?; What careers do EC officials have?; How are they selected, trained, promoted?; What sort of lifestyle and ethos do they develop?; What are the administration's internal dynamics?; What are the strengths and weaknesses of the system? Brussels Bureaucrats? looks at what they do from day to day, at the conflicts which arise and how they are tackled, and at relationships with those who provide political direction.