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EU Institutions, History & Politics Features
A short history of the book “The European Parliament”
The idea of writing a book on the European Parliament was suggested 35 years ago by Francis Jacobs to John Harper, then working at the British publisher Longmans. He agreed; but what Francis did not know was that John only succeeded in getting the proposal approved by the Longman acquisitions committee by promising that he would also produce a volume on the much higher profile Commission!

