The Observer has a very readable piece on the opaque nature of the European Parliament this week. One fact in it is truly shocking, even to someone fairly sceptical about the whole affair.
As they say, you couldn’t make it up.This year, the European Union spent £14,400,400 investigating how to reduce the parliament’s administrative costs.
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