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UK Independence Party MEP Marta Andreasen is a member of six committees in the European Parliament, largely dealing with finance, her area of expertise.
This site is the home of her blog detailing her work and the machinations on those committees. Please feel free to contact Marta if you have any issues or comments that you might like to raise with her.
More on the the Jollies story in Today’s Daily Express including a supportive Editorial:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/298226/Scandal-of-the-230m-EU-bill-for-overseas-junkets
and
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/298216
Below you will find a story I gave to the DailyTelegraph that was published today. It reveals the real cost of MEPs Delegation trips, or what i prefer to call ‘jollies’. The amounts of taxpayers cash spent on these trips is truly appalling…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9039154/EU-sent-50-MEPs-to-Congo-for-eight-days-at-cost-of-850000.html
dsiagraced former Commission Chief Jacques Santer
The EU announced yesterday that Mr Santer will head up the ‘Special Purpose Investment Vehicle.’ This vehicle was created last year to raise public and private investment from outside the EU to bolster the Eurozone economy.
Mr Santer will be able to buy and sell bonds to finance sovereign debt in the Eurozone. Currently the fund is estimated to already have 60 Billion Euro in its coffers.
I’m sure that many, many people will be choking on their coffees at the news that a disgraced former EU Commissioner, who was forced to step down with his whole team of fellow Commissioners because of accusations of corruption, fraud and nepotism, is now to be put in charge of this new multi-billion fund.
This move shows, in glorious technicolour, the utter contempt from those running the EU towards the public they claim to serve.