The new Euro Palace costing £280m.. as economies collapse around Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-watchdog.html
WHAT AUSTERITY? A NEW £280m HQ FOR EUROCRATS
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Originally Posted by Daily Mail
David Cameron accused EU leaders of wanting to live in a ‘gilded cage’ yesterday after Brussels bosses raised two fingers to austerity by laying out plans for a lavish new headquarters costing £280million. The Prime Minister and other EU leaders were presented with an expensive brochure about the building as they were discussing the need for austerity at a summit dinner on Thursday night. Computer generated images show a womb-like glass structure, dubbed the ‘EUterus’, and an enormous circular summit chamber resembling the war room in the film Dr Strangelove.
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Originally Posted by Daily Mail
Mr Cameron told Eurocrats they ‘just don’t get’ the need for austerity after it emerged that the European Commission was spending £100,000 of taxpayers’ money on the 16-page pamphlet alone. It features Euro-gobbledygook saying the building – expected to be in use by 2014 – will be ‘a patchwork of European diversity . . . housing the heart of Europe’, with achingly right-on areas such as ‘humane gathering places’.
Mr Cameron said there was no need for a new summit building and expressed disgust that EU officials were wasting money promoting their own ‘grandiose schemes’ rather than tackling Europe’s economic woes. ‘It’s important, whether it’s at the national level or the European level, that politicians aren’t sitting in some gilded cage,’ he added.
Some animals are more equal than others, but apart from it costing a lot of money at a time when the 'strong' economies cannot afford it (let alone the people themselves wanting it) they could have at least picked a nice design which could be used for something once the EU and the Euro are history.. its bland, grey and expensive, just like the people who run the EU as well as the organisation itself.
Mr Cameron may make these comments to cater to the press and thus the public, but what is he going to do about it? a very simple answer would be to leave, but even if you don't wish to leave there's a very good reason for not paying the EU a single penny more - it's accounts have not been audited for the past 16 years. Any normal company which ran like this, well the owners would be in prison right now.
Another note, its understood that Buckingham Palace needs urgent repairs and the government has been uneasy about giving it anything in the name of 'cuts' - so here you have it, our own Head of State and our own national historical buildings are being put second to the dreams of the EU in creating its hideous stamp on Europe.
Time to leave the mad house, thoughts?
