[3] The term was coined by Richard Mayne, a journalist and personal assistant to the first Commission president, Walter Hallstein, in 1961.
Secondly, there are fonctionnaires or functionaries, meaning the permanent staff which form the majority of the European institutions.
EPSO is the main body which selects staff for recruitment to the European Institutions.
Although the term Eurocrat might convey negative connotations for some, specialists of European Union and its institutions Didier Georgagakakis and Jay Rowell use the concept of Eurocracy[6] as a way to describe and analyse EU actors and professionals interactions.
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