'Engaging and absorbing, here is an eye-opening book that will inspire you to think through the issues clearly without starting a saloon-bar brawl.' -- Daily Telegraph 'This will be the essential vade mecum when a referendum campaign takes place. The part in which he analyses the pros and cons of British exit from the EU will be the most influential. I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone.' -- The Sunday Times 'Bootle is right on every count.' --Larry Elliott, The Guardian 'A book for every faint-heart who thinks this country could never prosper outside the EU. A timely and balanced analysis.' --Boris Johnson 'If David Cameron wants a grown-up and nuanced spat, then all of Bootle's print-run should be bought up and given away free to the nation before we go to the polls.

' --Margareta Pagano, Independent on Sunday 'This is a credible plan for life outside Europe and deserves to be widely read.' -- The Week - Business Books of the Year 'Roger Bootle perceptively analyzes what is wrong with the European Union as presently constituted, both politically and economically; what reforms are needed to make it wise for the UK to remain a member; and how we can most sensibly conduct ourselves outside the EU, should those reforms not be undertaken. It is essential background reading for any future in/out referendum.' --Rt Hon Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer 'Roger Bootle's well-informed and rigorously-argued book brutally exposes the problems besetting Europe and Britain's position within - and conceivably outside - the European Union. It should be required reading for all those preparing to vote.' --David Marsh, author of Europe's Deadlock 'A compulsively readable analysis which should be of engrossing interest to europhiles and eurosceptics alike.' --William Keegan, the Observer's Senior Economics Commentator, author of Mr Osborne's Economic Experiment 'This is an important book. Anyone who wishes to debate this issue seriously will have to read it.

Bootle has done the world a service.' --Dr John Llewellyn, former Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary General of the OECD, founding partner Llewellyn Consulting 'Bootle writes with energetic prose and makes some good points. In The Trouble with Europe , he asks what has gone wrong with the EU, suggests why reforms are unlikely to happen and maps out a fresh start for UK-EU relations.' -- Financial Times ' The Trouble with Europe by the respected economist Roger Bootle is ever so timely and written in a faultlessly reasonable manner, this makes his criticisms about the EU even more powerful.' -- The Times 'Few voters feel warmly about ever closer union; many would agree with Mr Bootle that this aspiration of the original Treaty of Rome should be formally ditched. The EU and the euro will get into trouble again and the outcome next time could be even worse.' -- Economist 'Timely and balanced.' --Gisela Stuart MP, Birmingham Edgbaston (Labour) 'Crystal-clear analysis and punchy comment.

It's the best book yet on the European Union's dysfunctionality.' --Jeff Randall, Sky News business presenter.