The Ultimate EU Handbook is a comprehensive 500-page guide to the EU institutions and other bodies, their history, what they do, and how they do it.

Designed by the team behind The Ultimate EU Test Book, the Handbook is packed with easy-to-follow quick summaries, reminders of key points, tables, figures, maps, and photos. It also includes many step-by-step examples of the EU in action, in areas ranging from trade and the digital economy to global engagement and climate change.

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The Brussels “EU Bubble” is a high-pressure, fast-churn and competitive environment where career success can often come at a high personal cost. Drawing on his own experience and the collective wisdom of many Brussels insiders, Jeroen Reijnen explains “the art of working and living in the EU Bubble” − in other words, how best to achieve a positive work-life balance in a city where people come and go, and burnout, rootlessness and loneliness are all too common.

As Jeroen explains: �...

This 20th anniversary edition of The Ultimate EU Test Book covers the updated 2025 suite of tests used by EPSO for Administrator competitions. It is packed with practical advice on learning strategies to maximise your chances of success. There are hundreds of practice test questions explaining the shortcuts to finding correct answers quickly and the common errors that candidates make. And, for the first time, the Administrators edition now includes coverage of the interviews and other oral te...

In an era of information overload, great ideas alone aren’t enough — how you communicate them determines whether they shape decisions or get ignored. This book gives you the tools to ensure your policy briefs are read, understood, and acted upon.

The book is designed to help policymakers, researchers, advocacy professionals, communications specialists, and anyone who needs to turn complex ideas into clear, compelling, and actionable policy communications.

The coverage includes:

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