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October 18, 2010
It is hard to think of a better example of how not to run a large-scale infrastructure project than the EU’s Galileo satellite system. In a new briefing we set out the latest cost over-runs and delays to a project that is now expected to be completed a…
August 20, 2010
A lot of attention has been paid in recent weeks to the European Parliament-funded virtual reality experience, Citzalia, which recreates life in the Parliament online.As its weblog states, it is “a role playing game and social networking forum wrapped …
March 1, 2010
For those of you that didn’t know, the European Commission is now in the art business, using taxpayers money to fund various culture projects to promote “greater intercultural dialogue” and various other abstract goals.Of the projects chosen for fundin…
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English, EU culture, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, Languages and Culture |
January 4, 2010
In October EU ministers and heads of state met under the Swedish EU Presidency to discuss how to fight global poverty and combat climate change.The Swedish press reported over Christmas that the participants in these so-called European Development Days…
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Climate change, energy efficiency, English, environment, EU hypocrisy, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste |
December 10, 2009
Last week, we were told by journalists that Dirk Ahner, the Commission’s Director-General for regional policy, had apparently sent a letter to the members of the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control committee, criticising Open Europe’s 50 examples o…
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31513, English, environment, EU budget, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, European Commission, Financial Services, Structural Funds |
November 13, 2009
On EUobserver today, Open Europe spells out in some more detail what we consider to be wrong with the EU’s budget and how it should be reformed. The piece is a response to Commissioner Siim Kallas’ article on the same site a few days ago. We argue,The …
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English, EU budget, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, regional funding, Structural Funds, Taxation |
October 23, 2009
A paper floated by the Commission proposes to give the EU budget a more sensible focus – away from the current Byzantine arrangement in which subsidies are dished out to farmers and non-farmers alike and a range of ludacrious projects in richer member…
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English, EU budget, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, European Commission, Financial Services, Structural Funds, Taxation |
October 19, 2009
This clip is so painful (and funded by taxpayers): European Commissioner Viviane Reding rapping away in an attempt to encourage people to make more use of various IT inventions. The target group is not entirely clear, but it’s not hard to guess.Further…
