RT UK | 11/08/2017 English - New figures released show EU officials have been racking up huge spending bills on private jets and visits in January and February of this year. Andreas Pavlou, a researcher for Access Info Europe, says they asked for spending of the whole of 2016 but their requests were denied.
Media Part | 10/08/2017 French - Jean-Claude Juncker, le patron de la Commission, se trouve épinglé pour un bref voyage officiel à Rome avec son équipe, qui a coûté près de 27 000 euros en février 2016. Une ONG mène la bataille pour forcer la Commission à dévoiler l’intégralité des dépenses de mission, au nom du contrôle de l’argent public. Read more...
The Telegraph | 10/08/2017 English - The European Union is facing an expenses scandal after it had to admit that its senior officials had claimed tens of thousands of pounds to hire private jets and stay at luxury hotels. Read more...
RT News | 10/08/2017 English - EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini are in the center of a controversy for spending many thousands of euros on private charters as part of official missions, an information inquiry reveals. Read more...
The Times | 10/08/20017 English - The cost of chartered flights to transport EU commissioners and their entourages around the world makes up the bulk of the Brussels executive’s travel expenses. Read more...
BBC Newsnight | 10/08/2017 English - Evan Davis is joined by Conservative MP John Redwood and Helen Darbishire, the executive director of Access Info Europe which has been pushing the European Commission to disclose its expenses.
Euobserver | 10/08/2017 English - The European Commission has defended its use of air taxis for international meetings despite costs of tens of thousands of euros. Read more...
La Vanguardia | 09/08/2017 Spanish - La Comisión Europea (CE) no considera "posible" publicar los gastos de todos los viajes y misiones de los comisarios por la cantidad de tiempo y esfuerzo que exige sacar a la luz esos datos, dijo hoy una portavoz. Read more...
PlayGround | 09/08/2017 Spanish - 492.249 euros en 2 meses. Este es el gasto total que efectuaron los 28 miembros de la Comisión Europea entre enero y febrero de 2016 en 261 misiones diferentes alrededor de Europa y otros países. Es una cifra que se ha dado a conocer hoy y que supone una importante victoria en la lucha por la transparencia en la institución europea que mantiene la ONG española Access Info desde hace 3 años. Read more...
El Mundo | 09/08/2017 Spanish - Sesiones plenarias en Estrasburgo, el foro de Davos, cumbres con mandatarios extranjeros, reuniones en los Estados miembros... La lista de citas de los funcionarios de la Comisión Europea es larga y, a veces, el coste de los viajes que implican dichos encuentros demasiado elevado. Read more...
