Eppink, Derk Jan
Gender	male
MEP for	Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
Leading employee in	New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform
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Derk Jan Eppink is vice-president and director of New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform. Since 2009 he is Member of the European Parliament.

Influence fields of Person

In this section we try to document where the person has which influence.

Author in the media sphere

http://www.elsevier.nl/, Columnist for the Dutch weekly "Elsevier"

http://www.knack.be/nieuws/ (formerly), Correspondent for the the Flemish magazines "Knack" and "Trends" in the US

http://www.djeppink.eu/en/publications, blog-like entries on his own homepage

http://www.nrc.nl/, NRC Handelsblad, journalist on Southern Africa, later correspondent in Poland and Czechoslovakia

Editor in the media

http://www.standaard.be/, Flemish newspaper "De Standaard", political editor in Belgian politics

http://www.nrc.nl/, Political editor of NRC Handelsblad

Interviewed in media sphere

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2012, The Brussels Journal

http://weblogs.nos.nl/methetoogopmorgen/, Dutch radio channel "NOS Met het Oog op Morgen"

http://www.tros.nl/overdetros/, Dutch radio and TV channel "Tros Aktua-TV"

http://www.business-class.nl/, Dutch TV channel "RTL Business Class"

http://www.vrt.be/, Flemish radio and TV channel VRT

Membership in the politics sphere

http://www.ldd.be/, MEP for the Flemish party "Lijst Dedecker"

http://ecrgroup.eu/, European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Participation in Think Tank sphere

Nova Civitas (2007), 2006 Liberty Price winner

Employee in politics sphere

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ (formerly)

http://ec.europa.eu/internal market/index en.htm (1999-2004), Employee of the Dutch European Commissioner for Internal Markets Frits Bolkestein

http://ec.europa.eu/index en.htm (formerly)

http://ec.europa.eu/index en.htm (2004-2007), Employee of the Estonian Commissioner Siim Kallas for Administration, Audit and Anti-fraud

Lecturer in academia sphere

http://www.roac.nl/roac/ (April 2007), University College Roosevelt Academy

Notes on the influence fields

Often people are present in various fields, but there presence can't be connected to specific actors (e.g. it is often senseless to connect the media presence of politicians to particular newspapers). We use this section to document these unspecific, but nonetheless important presences.
Between 2007 and 2009 Eppink worked as a journalist for Dutch and Beligian newspapers in the United States.

Publications:

Strange Neighbours (1998),book on the political and cultural differences between the Netherlands and Belgium
Life of a European Mandarin, book on daily life of EU officials
Bonfire of Bureaucracy, book on the dangers of autonomous growth of EU officialdom

References

Eppink, Derk Jan