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Author: Javier Elorza.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Diplomat and career civil servant Javier Elorza,<\/strong> one of Spain’s most authoritative voices, guides the reader in Una pica en Flandes<\/em><\/strong> through the lesser-known side of European politics. Away from the cameras and party politics, this personal chronicle of his journey from 1986 to 2004 as a member of Spain’s permanent representation in Europe, where he held the main posts, shows the European Union from the inside, with power struggles, weak balances of power, variable pacts, secret agreements and national interests as the real protagonists, sometimes in a stark and brutal manner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The author, in this unprecedented and privileged vision, opens the doors of the offices and the backrooms of the EU institutions, and unravels the role that Spain has played in Europe since its accession in 1986, as well as the economic and social boost that this has meant for our country. With the help of Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aznar, he recounts in an entertaining and direct way the ins and outs of the arduous and exhausting negotiations in Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon, which have always resulted in Spain’s greater role and integration into the Union. This story has never been told before, and it is rounded off with a multitude of anecdotes about figures such as Giscard d’Estaing, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, John Major, Jordi Pujol, Francisco Fern\u00e1ndez Ordo\u00f1ez, Abel Matutes, etc., in other words, those who have shaped the idea of Europe – and of Spain – over the last forty years.<\/p>\n Pages:<\/strong> 424 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Career diplomat and civil servant Javier Elorza guides the reader through the more obscure side of European politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-leisure"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Penguin. Collection Debate
\nBinding:<\/strong> eBook
\nISBN:<\/strong> 9788419399809
\nRPP:<\/strong> 21,75 euros<\/p>\n