In Brussels, tens of thousands are defining regulations for five
hundred million. Civil servants, lobbyists, representatives,
assistants, politicians, interns. They negotiate seventy percent of our
laws, but we do not know their faces.
For one year, Martin Leidenfrost explored Europe’s capital and wrote
fifty personal – tender, alienated, mischievous – portraits.
When he could not bear the Eurocrats, Leidenfrost escaped: to the
African neighbourhood, to the Finnish sauna, to the Brussels window
prostitutes and even to their Bulgarian hometown. He visited an
Albanian drug dealer and discovered the happiest man in the world: a
tobacco lobbyist.
He follows every hint, perseveres, does not want to give up until an
issue opens up well and truly. At the same time Martin Leidenfrost’s
stories are always entertaining – and time and again they show us a
different side of the Eurocrats.
Rezensionen / Reviews:
Journal: Brussels unlimited - May 26 2011
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