22 março 2007

ECOPOL

Como são gastos os subsídios na União Europeia? A ler "Luxury Bike Shacks and Other Follies"

Um exemplo: "In recent years, for example, word got around in Germany's industrial Ruhr region that Brussels is most likely to approve projects that promise to create jobs in high-tech, software or the media. The grotesque result is that the Ruhr region is now filled with expensive but largely unused "foundation centers" and "media parks." Many are now empty."

Outro: "In southern Italy, for example, Brussels invested roughly €800 million in a project to modernize and electrify the railway network. The results of a 2002 review of the project were astonishing: Before it began eight years ago, "just under half" of the route network was electrified. According to official EU figures, the electrified portion of the network upon project completion was "50 percent.""