The Week United Kingdom (Digital)

The Week United Kingdom (Digital)

1 Issue, V. 1076

The human face of the EU

To The Guardian Some of the most persistent myths surrounding Brexit concern the size and aims of the EU Secretariat, which is, according to one of your correspondents, a “vast bureaucratic machine peddling an American neo-liberal agenda”. The Secretariat is actually tiny. The number of civil servants at the European Commission is 33,000; at the European Parliament, 6,000; and at the Council of the European Union, 3,500. At a total of 42,500, it is about a tenth of the size of the UK civil service in 2015: 439,000 in total, or 406,000 full-time equivalents. In fact, the EU employs fewer people than many UK departments on their own; two-thirds of HMRC (60,900 full-time equivalents) or the Ministry of Defence (56,800), and less than half of the Department for Work and Pensions…
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