Structural funds cashback
The European Commission yesterday (15 July) rather quietly slipped out its 2008 report on protection of the European Communities’ financial interests – in other words an assessment of whether or not...
View ArticleEIB: funding development through tax havens
The European Commission and big member states like France and Germany are planning a crack down on tax havens (while Britain is pretending to). So it might come as a surprise that the EU’s house bank,...
View ArticleCopenhagen climb-down
A general scaling-down of ambition in tackling global heating is taking place ahead of the COP-15 – the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,...
View ArticleMilitary spending dressed up as research
Great article by Andrew Rettman on EUObserver on the latest no-government-should-be-seen-without-one, public-money hoovering, military-industrial subsidies disguised as research fad: EU firms join gold...
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Where do fonctionnaires come from?
As part of the heated debate about a month ago about the European Union’s budget, questions were asked about the salaries and conditions of EU officials. Various journalists got hot under the collar...
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