BBC Newsnight | 10/08/2017 English - Evan Davis is joined by Conservative MP John Redwood and Helen Darbishire, the executive director of Access Info Europe which has been pushing the European Commission to disclose its expenses.
Euobserver | 10/08/2017 English - The European Commission has defended its use of air taxis for international meetings despite costs of tens of thousands of euros. Read more...
La Vanguardia | 09/08/2017 Spanish - La Comisión Europea (CE) no considera "posible" publicar los gastos de todos los viajes y misiones de los comisarios por la cantidad de tiempo y esfuerzo que exige sacar a la luz esos datos, dijo hoy una portavoz. Read more...
PlayGround | 09/08/2017 Spanish - 492.249 euros en 2 meses. Este es el gasto total que efectuaron los 28 miembros de la Comisión Europea entre enero y febrero de 2016 en 261 misiones diferentes alrededor de Europa y otros países. Es una cifra que se ha dado a conocer hoy y que supone una importante victoria en la lucha por la transparencia en la institución europea que mantiene la ONG española Access Info desde hace 3 años. Read more...
El Mundo | 09/08/2017 Spanish - Sesiones plenarias en Estrasburgo, el foro de Davos, cumbres con mandatarios extranjeros, reuniones en los Estados miembros... La lista de citas de los funcionarios de la Comisión Europea es larga y, a veces, el coste de los viajes que implican dichos encuentros demasiado elevado. Read more...
The Daily Mail | 09/08/2017 English - EU boss Jean-Claude Juncker splurged £24,000 of taxpayer's money to charter a private jet for a one-night trip to Rome, shock new figures reveal. The revelation was part of a slew of expensive travel bills exposed after a European Commission finally handed over the document after a two-year legal battle. Read more...
BBC | 09/08/2017 English - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker spent 25,000 euros (£22,600) on a private plane to take a nine-person delegation to Rome, campaigners have discovered. Read more...
The Spectator | 09/08/2017 English- Jean-Claude Juncker is a man with few friends in Britain – and that’s before his latest expenses were published following a lengthy fight. It’s fair to say the documents, which were released today, won’t do the president of the European Commission any favours. Juncker claimed thousands of euros worth of expenses for various trips during the first three months of 2016 alone. Read more...
The Guardian | 09/08/2017 English - Jean-Claude Juncker and his top officials are spending tens of thousands of euros on chartering private planes, according to documents detailing the European commission’s travel expenses. Read more...
Corriere Quotidiano | 09/08/2017 Italian - Juncker a Roma ha avuto "un programma molto intenso", compresi incontri con il presidente Sergio Mattarella, quello del Senato Sergio Grasso, quello della Camera Laura Boldrini, l'allora primo ministro Matteo Renzi e l'ex presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano: il codice di condotta (dei commissari) permette l'uso di aerei privati quando non ci sono voli commerciali. Read more...
