fotos de Daniel Mihailescu , Katarina Stolt e Thierry Roge
Durão Barroso, comissários e outro pessoal gozam férias em destinos exóticos e compram presentes caros em tempo de... austeridade
Ao mesmo tempo que os países europeus andam a fechar os cordões à bolsa e a contar os tostões para cumprir a austeridade imposta por Bruxelas, os membros da Comissão Europeia (CE) não se poupam em despesas.
Festas, viagens em jactos privados, limusines, hotéis de cinco estrelas e férias em destinos exóticos são apenas alguns exemplos dos luxos em que estes altos responsáveis europeus gastam o (nosso) dinheiro comunitário.
O «Daily Telegraph» publica uma longa reportagem, onde discrimina as descobertas de uma investigação levada a cabo pelo Bureau of Investigative Journalism sobre os gastos de Bruxelas. Conclusão: a CE gastou mais de 9 milhões de euros neste tipo de «mimos».
Entre 2006 e 2010, os comissários gastaram 7,5 milhões de euros em viagens de jactos privados, a que a Comissão chama «táxis aéreos» e garante que «apenas foram autorizados em circunstâncias excepcionais».
Muitos milhares de euros foram gastos em estadias em resorts de luxo, em destinos exóticos como Papua Nova Guiné, Gana e Vietname. A CE garante que a despesa feita na Papua Nova Guiné se destinou a formação para o seu pessoal. Numa ocasião, uma delegação de 44 membros voou para o resort de cinco estrelas Palm Garden Resort, no Vietname, para um evento destinado a «facilitar a cooperação interna».
foto de Francois Lenoir
Durão Barroso «apanhado»
O português José Manuel Durão Barroso, que preside à CE, também é visado neste relatório: terá gasto 28 mil euros numa estadia de quatro noites no New York Peninsula Hotel, em Setembro de 2009. Barroso ficou na unidade hoteleira, onde cada suite custa 780 euros por noite, com uma equipa de oito assistentes para assistir à Cimeira das Alterações Climáticas das Nações Unidas [VÍDEO AQUI]. O valor, que incluía despesas com o aluguer de salas de reunião e equipamento, quase triplicou o limite de 275 euros por pessoa por noite para acomodação em Nova Iorque, fixado pelos regulamentos da Comissão para o seu pessoal.
Confrontada com este facto, a Comissão considerou o gasto a mais «razoável», tendo em conta que o preço das estadias em Nova Iorque estava inflacionado durante a cimeira.
Quase 75 mil euros numa festa em Amesterdão
Mais de 300 mil euros foram aplicados em festas e cocktails, incluindo uma em Amesterdão, avaliada em 75 mil euros, que surge descrita como «uma noite recheada de maravilhas como nenhuma outra».
A CE diz que o evento «contou com a presença de artistas e cientistas de renome mundial, parte de uma iniciativa a nível europeu, envolvendo a Universidade de Oxford e o Museu de História Nacional de Londres. O dinheiro gasto em bebidas destinou-se sobretudo a café e não chegou a 2 euros por participante».
Foram contratadas orquestras de topo para tocar nas festas exclusivas e os oradores convidados eram mimados com presentes como botões de punho, canetas de tinta permanente e jóias da famosa cadeia Tiffany. Em limusines e motoristas foram 118 mil euros.
Bruxelas ainda pede aumento da sua dotação orçamental
Vários membros do Parlamento Europeu reagiram já às revelações, feitas poucos dias depois de a Comissão ter exigido um aumento de 4,9% no seu orçamento, cujo dinheiro vem dos Estados membros, ou seja, sai directamente do bolso dos contribuintes.
As revelações ganham uma gravidade maior tendo em conta as dificuldades que vários países da União atravessam, com milhares de famílias castigadas pelo desemprego e pelas dificuldades financeiras.
No Reino Unido, a reportagem do jornal britânico arrancou já várias reacções [VÍDEO AQUI], a começar pelo ministro para a Europa, para quem «a CE tem muito por onde poupar antes de vir pedir mais dinheiro». Já Bill Cash, Presidente do Comité Europeu de Escrutínio na Câmara dos Comuns, diz-se «enojado. A Comissão actua como uma monarquia medieval e este é dinheiro dos contribuintes que está claramente a ser esbanjado de uma forma ultrajante». Os responsáveis britânicos querem que o assunto seja formalmente investigado.
publicado na Agência Financeira
foto: Yves Herman
Vale a pena conferir os últimos conselhos do português Durão Barroso, presidente da Comissão Europeia, a Portugal. Para não irmos mais longe, fiquemo-nos pelo último mês e meio, e pelas recomendações que fez à pátria, à data da assinatura do acordo de empréstimo financeiro com a troika FMI/BCE/UE:
- Durão exige apoio de todos os portugueses às medidas da troika
- Durão Barroso avisa Portugal: aplicar o programa vai ser «doloroso»
Clicando no link a baixo, fica a investigação do Bureau of Investigative Journalism e a matéria originalmente publicada pelo The Daily Telegraph, que estão a despoletar a indignação geral. Fica também um artigo de Caelainn Barr, o jornalista que conduziu a investigação durante meses, e que vale a pena ler. A título de curiosidade, segue também o clipping das notícias que, até ao momento, saíram em Portugal sobre o assunto.
[ARTIGO DE CAELAINN BARR]
Analysis: EU Commission expenses highlight lack of transparency in Brussels
June 1st, 2011 | by Caelainn Barr
With the European agenda dominated by financial woes, IMF bailouts and budget cuts, it is hard not to balk at the EU’s request for a budget increase of €6.2bn in April.
The fact that the European Court of Auditors have not signed off on the EU’s accounts for 16 years makes the pill even harder to swallow.
In approaching Europe with a critical eye one of the biggest challenges is to avoid being branded a euro-sceptic. Criticism of EU spending should not be seen as a war cry or an attempt to undermine the European project. Rather, it is part of a drive towards a more transparent and accountable political system.
At a time when public confidence has been dented by lobbying and revolving door scandals in Parliament and the Commission, only vastly improved transparency will give citizens the assurances they need about EU expenditure.
We are yet to see any real results from the 2005 European Transparency Initiative (ETI) which has not provided complete and detailed accounts of Commission grants and expenditure in the Financial Transparency System (FTS), a comprehensive database of EU funding. Neither is there a mandatory register of lobbyists operating in Parliament and the Commission, which would enable European taxpayers to see what special interest lobbyists get up to with the legislators and officials we have paid.
The FTS has been in place for over four years and yet its lack of detail makes it almost useless. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s research was impeded by Commission press officers who took two months to respond to requests, avoided questions, advised journalists that they “considered the matter to be closed” and referred questions to FOI procedures.
MEPs have been refused information about private jet travel and hotel expenses in parliamentary questions and been given incorrect data by the Commission. Martin Ehrehauser, an Independent Austrian MEP, tabled the same question three times to get a clear answer about private jet travel and was told by the Commission, who only published their answers in French and German, that they “would not undertake a lengthy investigation into expenditure due to other priorities”.
It is this high-handed attitude that betrays the public. How can an organisation expect to gain respect from its own citizens and elected representatives if it refuses to explain how it is spending their money?
The figures revealed in the Bureau’s investigation should not be cast aside as supporting an euro-sceptic view. Previous investigations into government spending, like that of MPs expenses in the UK, have not been seen as an attack on an entire system of governance but a way of holding it up to public scrutiny and encouraging engagement with politics.
The public expect their politicians to behave in a honourable way and whilst the EU is calling for increased budgets the Commission is doing itself no favours by failing to pursue a transparent and open approach to expenditure.
[RELATÓRIO DO THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIvE JOURNALISM]
EU Commission Expenses: Cocktail parties, private jets, luxury away-days and limousines
June 1st, 2011 | by Caelainn Barr
The Bureau’s latest investigation details expenditure from the European Financial Transparency System (FTS).
The FTS was initiated in 2005 under the European Transparency Initiative (ETI) however the database remains incomplete and inaccurate.
The Bureau has worked for three months to bring you specific EU Commission expenditure in specific areas.
Below are links to some of the most topical data uncovered through our research.
The data should be approached with caution as some figures may not refer to one item of expenditure but to a cumulative amount of expenditure over a period of time. The FTS does not make that distinction and all the data is presented with the same degree of detail as it is by the EU Commission.
Read more of the data from our investigation below, arranged in spending themes.
- EU Commission Expenditure – Jets *
- EU Commission Expenditure – Limousines
- EU Commission Expenditure – Golf
- EU Commission Expenditure – Wine
- EU Commission Expenditure – Orchestras
- EU Commission Expenditure – Resorts
- EU Commission Expenditure – Away Days
- EU Commission Expenditure - Banquets
The EU Commission is made up of 27 Commissioners, one from each of the member states, and about 25,000 European civil servants. It acts as the EU’s cabinet and some of its main purposes are to implement legislation for Europe and the day to day running of the Union and its funding programs.
The Commission sits in Brussels, and is entirely funded by the EU taxpayer.
* All the data relating to private jet travel is based on expenses information available for “Abelag Aviation NV”, the Commission’s main supplier of private jet travel services.
EU Commission spends millions on ‘luxuries’
June 1st, 2011 | by Caelainn BarrThe Bureau’s latest investigation reveals that the European Commission has spent millions of taxpayers’ money on private jet travel, luxury resorts, parties and expensive presents.
Our investigation shows that Commissioners were travelling by private jet and handing out gifts of Tiffany jewellery to guests as Europeans faced budget cuts and IMF bailouts.
The figures
Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal:
- President Barroso and eight assistants ran up a bill of €28,000 for a four night stay at the New York Peninsula Hotel, where the delegation stayed in suites costing on average €780 per night.
- The Commission spent over €20,000 between 2008-2010 on gifts, with guest speakers being presented with gifts from the jewelers Tiffany.
- Over €300,000 was spent on events the EU described as “cocktail parties” in 2009. One bill totalled €75,000 for an event subsidised by the EU’s Research Executive Agency in Amsterdam, boasting a “night filled with wonder like no other…state-of-the-art technology, challenging art, combined with trendy cocktails, surprising performances and top DJs”.
The Bureau’s study comes as the Commission has called for a budget increase of 4.9% for the EU budget as a whole, whilst European nations are grappling with record national debts, embarking on extensive privatisation programmes and appealing for IMF bailouts worth hundreds of billions of euros.
Luxury spending
In 2009 the Commission held away-days for officials and their families at beach resorts in Papua New Guinea and Ghana. On one occasion a Vietnamese delegation flew 44 staff to the five-star Palm Garden Resort for an event to “facilitate internal co-operation”.
Martin Ehrehauser, Independent Austrian MEP, said: “It is extremely disappointing to see how easily the Commission spends the EU taxpayers’ money – millions of euros – on private jet travel and luxury hotels. This makes the gap between citizens and the EU bureaucracy even bigger and deeper.”
Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau, said: “Our findings raise questions not just about taxpayers’ money being wasted, but also about how accountable the EU Commission is for its spending.”
The EU Commission is made up of 27 Commissioners, one from each of the member states, and about 25,000 European civil servants. It acts as the EU’s cabinet and some of its main purposes are to implement legislation for Europe and the day to day running of the Union and its funding programs.
The Commission sits in Brussels, and is entirely funded by the EU taxpayer.
Get the press release in your language:
- Commissioners’ expenses press release (English version)
- Commissioners’ expenses press release (French version)
- Commissioners’ expenses press release (Spanish version)
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[ARTIGO NO THE DAILY TLEGRAPH]
foto de Yves Herman
European Commission spends millions on private jets, luxury holidays and cocktail parties
The European Commission has spent more than £8 million on private jet travel, luxury holiday resorts and cocktail parties, an investigation has disclosed.
published in The Daily Telegraph
10:00PM BST 01 Jun 2011
Commissioners travelled in limousines, stayed in five star hotels and splashed out on lavish gifts including Tiffany jewellery as their member states faced savage budget cuts and rising EU taxes.
An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism into spending by the EU executive has shown that more than €7.5m (£6.6m) was spent on private jet travel for commissioners between 2006 and 2010.
Baroness Ashton, the British EU foreign minister, came under fire when it was reported that she had demanded her own private jet less than 100 days into her new role in March last year.
Tens of thousands more was spent accommodating commissioners at luxury five star resorts in exotic locations such as Papua New Guinea, Ghana and Vietnam, the spending figures show.
The Commission also ran up a bill of more than €300,000 (£263,511) for lavish cocktail parties, including an event in Amsterdam costing €75,000, which was described as “a night filled with wonder like no other”.
It spent thousands hiring top orchestras to play at the exclusive parties, while guest speakers at its events were presented with expensive gifts including cufflinks, fountain pens and Tiffany jewellery.
Conservative ministers and MEPs last night reacted furiously to the disclosures, days after the Commission demanded a budget increase of 4.9 per cent, which would cost Britons €3 billion a year in "stealth taxes".
David Lidington, the Europe Minister, said the figures proved the Commission must slash its own spending before its demands for a budget increase can be countenanced.
He said: “Taxpayers across Europe are facing tough decisions about their own housekeeping budgets and its time for the commission to look long and hard and its own spending priorities. Any evidence of extravagance and waste will damage the standing not only of the individual commissioners involved but also of the EU as a whole.
“What’s very clear is that the Commission can afford to make savings before it comes asking national governments for any extra money.”
Bill Cash, Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee in the House of Commons, demanded that the EU’s financial watchdog open a formal investigation into the spending.
He said: “Frankly I’m disgusted. The Commission acts like a medieval monarchy and this is taxpayers’ money which is quite clearly being squandered on an outrageous scale.
“This requires formal investigation and as chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee I will be calling upon the Court of Auditors to produce an official report.”
Figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and passed to The Daily Telegraph show that the Commission’s President, Jose Manuel Barroso, ran up a bill of €28,000 (£24,500) during a four-night stay at the New York Peninsula Hotel in September 2009.
Mr Barroso stayed at the five-star hotel, where suites cost €780 a night, with an entourage of eight assistants while attending the UN Climate Change Summit. The bill included the cost of hiring meeting rooms and equipment.
The hotel bill came to almost triple the limit of €275 per person per night for accommodation in New York set out in the Commission’s staff regulations.
When questioned over the bill, the Commission said that the overspend was considered reasonable due to inflated accommodation costs in New York during the UN General Assembly.
Commissioners and their families also holidayed at luxury resorts in Papua New Guinea and Ghana during 2009.
On one occasion, a delegation of 44 staff was flown to the five-star Palm Garden Resort in Vietnam for an event to “facilitate internal cooperation”.
On top of the £6.6m private jet bill, a further €118,000 was paid for limousines to chauffeur commissioners between official engagements.
Details of the extravagant spending is likely to spark public fury following the Commission’s proposals to levy more than £200 a year from the average British family in direct taxation from 2013.
Janusz Lewandowski, the European budget commissioner, made the demand for tax-raising powers on Tuesday.
Baroness Ashton infuriated British government ministers last month when she demanded an extra £23.5 million to run her diplomatic service, which would take her total budget to £427 million.
The EU foreign minister is the world’s highest paid female politician, earning £230,000 a year. Her demands for more cash were branded “ludicrous” by Mr Lidington last month.
A spokesman for Lady Ashton last night denied that she had requested her own private jet last year, but admitted that she is a frequent user of "air taxis" to destinations where commercial flights are not avaiable.
Martin Callanan, the leader of the Conservative group of MEPs, described the new spending revelations as “scandalous”.
"When the commission said it needs a five percent budget increase to 'pay its bills' we didn't think it meant private jets, Tiffany jewellery and cocktail parties,” he said.
“This is exactly the sort of outrageous spending that needs to be slashed."
Mats Persson, director of the Open Europe campaign group, said the latest disclosures about Commissioners’ spending would further sour the public mood towards the EU.
He said: “With the public mood in Europe turning increasingly hostile to the EU, the Commission would do itself a huge favour by putting an end to this kind of excessive spending. Revelations about EU waste have become almost routine, but that doesn’t make them anymore acceptable.”
The Commission said that the use of private jets, which it called “air taxis”, was only authorised under “exceptional circumstances” when commercial flights were not available.
A spokeswoman said that the bills for resorts in Papua New Guinea and Ghana were for training events attended by staff working in delegations in those countries.
She added: “The Amsterdam event featured renowned scientists, serious state of the art science activities and took place at the Dutch equivalent of the UK Science Museum as part of a Europe-wide initiative involving amongst others Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum. The Commission's finance for refreshments was not for cocktails but for coffee etc and amounted to less than 2 euro per participant.”
by Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
published in The Daily Telegraph
7:30AM BST 01 Jun 2011
It spent thousands hiring top orchestras to play at the exclusive parties, while guest speakers at its events were presented with expensive gifts including cufflinks, fountain pens and Tiffany jewellery.
Conservative ministers and MEPs last night reacted furiously to the disclosures, days after the Commission demanded a budget increase of 4.9 per cent, which would cost Britons €3 billion a year in "stealth taxes".
David Lidington, the Europe Minister, said the figures proved the Commission must slash its own spending before its demands for a budget increase can be countenanced.
He said: “Taxpayers across Europe are facing tough decisions about their own housekeeping budgets and its time for the commission to look long and hard and its own spending priorities. Any evidence of extravagance and waste will damage the standing not only of the individual commissioners involved but also of the EU as a whole.
“What’s very clear is that the Commission can afford to make savings before it comes asking national governments for any extra money.”
Bill Cash, Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee in the House of Commons, demanded that the EU’s financial watchdog open a formal investigation into the spending.
He said: “Frankly I’m disgusted. The Commission acts like a medieval monarchy and this is taxpayers’ money which is quite clearly being squandered on an outrageous scale.
“This requires formal investigation and as chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee I will be calling upon the Court of Auditors to produce an official report.”
Figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and passed to The Daily Telegraph show that the Commission’s President, Jose Manuel Barroso, ran up a bill of €28,000 (£24,500) during a four-night stay at the New York Peninsula Hotel in September 2009.
Mr Barroso stayed at the five-star hotel, where suites cost €780 a night, with an entourage of eight assistants while attending the UN Climate Change Summit. The bill included the cost of hiring meeting rooms and equipment.
The hotel bill came to almost triple the limit of €275 per person per night for accommodation in New York set out in the Commission’s staff regulations.
When questioned over the bill, the Commission said that the overspend was considered reasonable due to inflated accommodation costs in New York during the UN General Assembly.
Commissioners and their families also holidayed at luxury resorts in Papua New Guinea and Ghana during 2009.
On one occasion, a delegation of 44 staff was flown to the five-star Palm Garden Resort in Vietnam for an event to “facilitate internal cooperation”.
On top of the £6.6m private jet bill, a further €118,000 was paid for limousines to chauffeur commissioners between official engagements.
Details of the extravagant spending is likely to spark public fury following the Commission’s proposals to levy more than £200 a year from the average British family in direct taxation from 2013.
Janusz Lewandowski, the European budget commissioner, made the demand for tax-raising powers on Tuesday.
Baroness Ashton infuriated British government ministers last month when she demanded an extra £23.5 million to run her diplomatic service, which would take her total budget to £427 million.
The EU foreign minister is the world’s highest paid female politician, earning £230,000 a year. Her demands for more cash were branded “ludicrous” by Mr Lidington last month.
A spokesman for Lady Ashton last night denied that she had requested her own private jet last year, but admitted that she is a frequent user of "air taxis" to destinations where commercial flights are not avaiable.
Martin Callanan, the leader of the Conservative group of MEPs, described the new spending revelations as “scandalous”.
"When the commission said it needs a five percent budget increase to 'pay its bills' we didn't think it meant private jets, Tiffany jewellery and cocktail parties,” he said.
“This is exactly the sort of outrageous spending that needs to be slashed."
Mats Persson, director of the Open Europe campaign group, said the latest disclosures about Commissioners’ spending would further sour the public mood towards the EU.
He said: “With the public mood in Europe turning increasingly hostile to the EU, the Commission would do itself a huge favour by putting an end to this kind of excessive spending. Revelations about EU waste have become almost routine, but that doesn’t make them anymore acceptable.”
The Commission said that the use of private jets, which it called “air taxis”, was only authorised under “exceptional circumstances” when commercial flights were not available.
A spokeswoman said that the bills for resorts in Papua New Guinea and Ghana were for training events attended by staff working in delegations in those countries.
She added: “The Amsterdam event featured renowned scientists, serious state of the art science activities and took place at the Dutch equivalent of the UK Science Museum as part of a Europe-wide initiative involving amongst others Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum. The Commission's finance for refreshments was not for cocktails but for coffee etc and amounted to less than 2 euro per participant.”
The European Union's spending: a guide
The European Commission's demands for direct taxation powers is the latest in a line of EU spending. Here is a breakdown of some of Europe's most notorious projects.
published in The Daily Telegraph
7:30AM BST 01 Jun 2011
£3 billion
Amount of 'stealth taxes' to be levied on Britons under European Commission plans to generate one third of the EU budget by 2020 using direct taxation powers.
£682 million
The amount Brussels demanded British taxpayers stump up in extra contributions next year to meet a proposed £5.5 billion increase in spending.
£9.2 billion
Amount British taxpayers contributed to the EU in 2010.
£94billion
The nine tenths of the EU's budget in 2009 that was “materially affected” by irregularities, projects that included the spending of more than £350,000 “improving the lifestyle and living standard of dogs” in Hungary.
£2billion
The annual cost of paying pensions to Eurocrats by 2040, British taxpayers will end up paying £350million of the total.
£136million
The amount British taxpayers paid for EU pensions in 2010, giving the average retired Eurocrat an income of almost £60,000.
1,023
The number of unelected EU civil servants who pocket bigger salaries than David Cameron's annual income of £142,500.
£328,000
The annual pay and perks package for Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign minister and highest paid female politician in the world
2,558
The number of senior EU officials, earning £185,000 a year, who were entitled to three months time off work on full pay last year.
£67million
The amount that the European Parliament’s 736 MEPs can collectively claim this year in “daily subsistence” and “general expenditure” expenses without having to provide any receipts or proof of expenditure.
£150million
The annual cost of moving the entire EU parliament hundreds of miles from Brussels to Strasbourg for a plenary sitting once a month as a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation.
£90million
The European House of History, to be built by 2014 by MEPs, despite a continuing argument over fundamental historical event, such as what happened during the Second World War.
£8million
The annual cost of EuroparlTV, a television channel, which highlights the work of MEPs, and has only 830 daily viewers, less than 10 per cent of the 9,000 people working in the parliament every day.
£410,000
Cash to train teenagers in Burkina Faso and Mali, two of the world's poorest countries, in “therapeutic dancing” because Africans find that “expression of feelings through the spoken word is often difficult and complicated”.
£162,000
The funding went to the London-based Flying Gorillas troupe, whose acts includes the “brilliant smelly foot dance”.
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£94billion
The nine tenths of the EU's budget in 2009 that was “materially affected” by irregularities, projects that included the spending of more than £350,000 “improving the lifestyle and living standard of dogs” in Hungary.
£2billion
The annual cost of paying pensions to Eurocrats by 2040, British taxpayers will end up paying £350million of the total.
£136million
The amount British taxpayers paid for EU pensions in 2010, giving the average retired Eurocrat an income of almost £60,000.
1,023
The number of unelected EU civil servants who pocket bigger salaries than David Cameron's annual income of £142,500.
£328,000
The annual pay and perks package for Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign minister and highest paid female politician in the world
2,558
The number of senior EU officials, earning £185,000 a year, who were entitled to three months time off work on full pay last year.
£67million
The amount that the European Parliament’s 736 MEPs can collectively claim this year in “daily subsistence” and “general expenditure” expenses without having to provide any receipts or proof of expenditure.
£150million
The annual cost of moving the entire EU parliament hundreds of miles from Brussels to Strasbourg for a plenary sitting once a month as a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation.
£90million
The European House of History, to be built by 2014 by MEPs, despite a continuing argument over fundamental historical event, such as what happened during the Second World War.
£8million
The annual cost of EuroparlTV, a television channel, which highlights the work of MEPs, and has only 830 daily viewers, less than 10 per cent of the 9,000 people working in the parliament every day.
£410,000
Cash to train teenagers in Burkina Faso and Mali, two of the world's poorest countries, in “therapeutic dancing” because Africans find that “expression of feelings through the spoken word is often difficult and complicated”.
£162,000
The funding went to the London-based Flying Gorillas troupe, whose acts includes the “brilliant smelly foot dance”.
Cf. também:
- First step towards 'directly elected EU president'
19 Apr 2011 - EU watchdogs find errors in 90pc of Brussels budget
09 Nov 2010 - £3 billion a year in 'stealth taxes' to be levied on Britain
01 Jun 2011 - Eurocrats pushing for further integration
01 Jun 2011 - EU spending in numbers
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