The Telegraph has a great piece lambasting the spending of the European Development Fund, an entity “managed by the notoriously spendthrift EuropeAid and has – it is fair to say – not covered itself in glory.”
Here are some of the projects that European tax money supported:
“Officials at the EDF have somehow contrived to spend thousands of pounds on trapeze lessons, a study on the development of the Pacific Coconut, flying a gamut of officials from across Oceania to a renewable energy conference in Aruba (no, really), supporting the work of the EU’s press operation in Jamaica, and a study into the ‘youth perceptions, attitudes and views towards EU development policy’ in Zimbabwe.”
Well, at least the last study on the list seems vital. Pushing back the frontiers of science…
Great Britain has also done its fair share of funding questionable aid projects. Here are some of my…
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