EC rejects financial waste claims
02/06/2011 13:01:55The European Commission (EC) has rejected claims of financial waste despite its own figures revealing a multimillioneuro bill for travel and entertaining by senior staff and officials
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The European Union TMs (EU) executive body spent 7.4m on private jets for commissioners and their advisers between 2006 and 2010
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The bureau, based at London TMs City University, said the records show millions of euro of taxpayers TM money spent on private jet travel, luxury fivestar resorts, parties and expensive presents .
A statement said: Our investigation shows that commissioners were travelling by private jet and handing out gifts of Tiffany jewellery to guests as Europeans faced budget cuts and IMF bailouts.
The bureau highlighted a bill for one trip alone of 28,000 for EC president Jose Manuel Barroso and eight assistants during a fournight stay at New York TMs Peninsula Hotel during a United Nations (UN) summit.
Between 2008 and 2010 the commission spent over 20,000 on gifts, with guest speakers being presented with Tiffany jewellery
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The study also itemises EC spending in 2009 on awaydays at fivestar resorts for officials and their families in Papua New Guinea and Ghana .
On one occasion, the EC TMs Vietnamese delegation flew 44 staff to the fivestar Palm Garden Resort for an event designed to facilitate internal cooperation .
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism TMs editor, Iain Overton, said: Our findings raise questions not just about taxpayers TM money being wasted but also about how accountable the EU Commission is for its spending.
An EC spokesman said: The figures are totally taken out of context and are deliberately misrepresented
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He went on: It is difficult to go through all the inaccuracies of the bureau TMs investigation.
Twisting the facts to play upon peoples TM concerns during times of crisis is a cheap and unethical way to get into the headlines, especially when the commission provided the complete and correct information in the first place
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All of this information is publicly available on our own financial transparency database, which is on our own website. There is nothing new here.
These comments have been condemned and rejected by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who say they stand over their report and have evidence for every expense that was claimed.
"Every expense is detailed in the report, and has been triplechecked," said Ian Overton, who added the bureau had documentary evidence to show what expenses had been claimed
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The high cost of New York hotel rooms
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