Inside the European Commission: Towards a New (and very different) Understanding

 18 October 2012

Despite the attention the European Commission has attracted, fundamental questions about the organization and its staff remain unaddressed, contested or unsatisfactorily resolved. Presenting the findings from a landmark project based on data from an online survey and a structured programme of follow-up interviews, this paper challenges many of the myths about the backgrounds, career paths, and beliefs of the people who work for the Commission, and offers new insights into its internal operation and the organization's response to administrative reform and the 2004 and 2007 enlargements.

Speaker

Hussein Kassim: Professor in Politics in the School of Political, Social and International Studies and Co-Investigator of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia.  He is Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project 'The European Commission in Question' and co-author of The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming, OUP). He has written on the EU institutions, EU aviation and competition policies, and relations between the EU and the member states.

This event is part of the School of Public Policy Seminar Series