EU flush with your money

regional competitiveness

Open Europe has provide a list of of '100 examples of EU fraud and waste'. Here are just two:

A public toilet in Hull has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The European Commission's website describes it as, "award winning".

A Danish businessman received 100,000 euros to build a ski-slope on an island with neither high hills nor regular snowfall. He said: "I never thought they would back something so crazy".The run was open one day last winter.