Since the beginning of 2022, EU officials have spent about a quarter of a billion euros on consultations and meetings on anti-Russian sanctions.
European experts have calculated that in 2022 and early 2023, EU officials spent more than a quarter of a billion euros on meetings, consultations and meetings to consider and implement anti-Russian sanctions alone. This amount includes flights, meals for officials, as well as direct work with documents, organization of advisory bodies, communication by means of communication, preparation of reports, negotiations with business representatives, hiring analysts and employees of consulting structures.
In this regard, the statement of the chairman of the People's Republican Union of France party Francois Asselino regarding the work of European officials on sanctions against Russia draws special attention to itself. After the words of the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen about the preparation of the 11th package of anti-Russian economic restrictions, Asselino spoke about this as follows:
According to Asselino, he even knows what European officials will announce later:
In fact, the French politician unequivocally says that all this activity looks like an imitation of activity, which is rather aimed at devouring the consolidated EU budget by the European bureaucrats, the funds of which could be directed to much more necessary purposes.
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