I feel the need to educate the public about the way the European Union functions, or rather does not function. For most readers, this may come as a great shock: how can anyone imagine that the legislature no longer makes laws and that it delegates its legislative power to obscure circles called "trialgues"? Today, being a lobbyist is considered a bad thing. Defender of business, of multinational companies, of capitalism... and by extension – of pesticides, intensive agriculture and junk food. That's the situation! The purpose of this book is not to correct this image, but to provide elements of evaluation and give a form of objectivity to the debates. Daniel Gegen is the longest serving lobbyist in the EU. He is a former head of the European Sugar Lobby and then of the European Farmers' Unions. Now, as a consultant, he's at the heart of the lobbying issues that make the news. A longtime professor in the United States, notably at Georgetown and Harvard. Now at the College of Europe. Multi-author, editor, blogger, Daniel Gueguen remains a staunch pro-European, but fiercely critical of an opaque, bureaucratic and, frankly, anti-democratic system.