
“Comical”: EU Parliament May Spend €20M for Monthly Scaffolding Shuffle
Dismantling and rebuilding the scaffolding every month for three years for just one day of debates sounds like a “Benny Hill sketch,” a conservative MEP said.
Dismantling and rebuilding the scaffolding every month for three years for just one day of debates sounds like a “Benny Hill sketch,” a conservative MEP said.
Refuse company is accused of dumping or burying 200,000 metric tons of toxic waste rather than legally disposing of it.
The proposed policy comes months after France banned disposable packaging from fast food restaurants.
Instead of ending up in Fiji to discuss environmentalism, the German foreign minister spent 50 hours getting from Berlin to Berlin, dumping 160 tons of jet fuel into the atmosphere in the meantime.
Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn noted there were no recorded expenses for hairdressers—just makeup artists and photo professionals.
This week saw a cross-partisan Gallic alliance of French MEPs unite to secure a new parliamentary building on French soil, which led even federalists to complain of wasteful EU spending.