Corriere Della Sera newspaper convic
At his extraordinary summit dedicated to the economic crisis, the European Union urged 27 of its members to refrain from excessive expenses. The Italian Corriere Della Sera perceived this call with a fair amount of skepticism. As it turned out, writes Luigi Offeddu, to information offices (33 of them throughout Europe), designed to talk about the work of the European Parliament for the year, in 2008, 41,03,03,615 euros were spent, more than 17.5 million were the salary of staff.