THE EU

Below is an article which appeared in yesterday’s The Sun:

EU junket 'to aid poor'

HUNDREDS of EU politicians and welfare officials enjoyed an extravagant weekend junket to discuss poverty.

Britain’s pensions minister James Plaskitt was among 250 delegates at Villach in Austria. They ate gourmet meals and many visited health spas.

Even the chairs for their meeting were flown 200 miles from Vienna because the originals were judged to be too uncomfortable.

The conference was called to discuss the EU’s 32million jobless, and 70million living on the poverty line.

The delegates spent six hours in talks. Many spent the rest of the three days relaxing in five-star hotels, attending gala receptions and entertainments in a brewery.

Far right regional governor Joerg Haider hosted the brewery trip. He has praised Hitler and said ruthless WWII German Waffen SS troops had ‘courage and conviction’.

The conference caused anger in Villach. Hairdresser Cleopatra Leidenfrost, 21, said: ‘Our taxes should not be squandered in such a lavish way’.