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Taxpayers foot huge EU Presidency bill

category national | eu | news report author Monday January 12, 2004 18:51author by pat - lp Report this post to the editors

The six-month EU Presidency, which puts the particular member state under the glare of a political and media spotlight, also brings enormous costs.

Ireland, which holds the EU Presidency for the first half of this year, is no exception.

The Irish Independent reports that the Presidency will cost Irish taxpayers around 500,000 euro for every day it remains at the EU helm.

The total bill will be well above 90m euro.

While around 23m euro was spent on preparations last year and 60m euro has been allocated this year - this is not the final sum as some of the Irish government departments have yet to say how much they are set to spend.

The Department of Foreign Affairs will be the biggest spender with a budget of 25 million euro for the year's events.

author by Javier Solanapublication date Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:02Report this post to the editors

i thought that pat rabbitte said the irish government wasn't taking the eu presidency seriously enough.

author by Davidpublication date Tue Jan 13, 2004 14:39Report this post to the editors

So we should stop complaining...

Except I have never seen anybody in the corporate media mention the fact that the value of fish taken from Irish waters by EU trawlers has been far more than we ever recieved in structural funds..

 
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