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| how EU wastes aid billions |
| 2011-04-19 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Billions of taxpayers’ cash is being spent on spurious aid projects through the EU, including giving dance lessons to Africans who earn less than 70p a day. Britons pay £1.4billion towards the EU’s £10billion aid budget, but much of the money is going to corrupt regimes or projects where no checks are made that it is properly spent. Meanwhile, relatively wealthy Turkey is the EU’s main recipient of aid, raking in £500million a year. Of course EU knows it'll be bailed out by Uncle Sugar |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |