Interesting article in the newspaper Rebirth December 1, showing how the funds almost 350 billion over seven years provided by the EU to help the development of underprivileged regions and help local SMEs (those who do not relocate), end up instead, legally, in the pockets of big corporations like Coca Cola, IBM and Nokia!
U.S. multinationals, IBM, Honeywell, McDonald's and Coca Cola are among the recipients of EU regional funds. To reveal the sensational news
a database collected by a group of British journalists who has shown how the European Commission has provided lavish financing for U.S. companies such as IBM, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Honeywell. Then include as a beneficiary of the big pharmaceutical companies, some chains supermarkets, and European companies in the aerospace and defense, such as EADS and Dassault. Not surprisingly, to take the lead in the complaint were just the reporters of the newspaper of the City of London, Financial Times, which is linked to the British government and its finance Eurosceptic by definition and bitter enemy of a Europe independent of the Anglo-American.
investigation however shows that European structural funds are not spent. Exactly. Billion euro in fact intended to increase the depressed regions of the Old Continent remain in the coffers of Brussels, because governments do not have the financial resources additional to unlock them. From the database then it is clear that the € 347 billion so far distributed in 271 regions of 27 European countries and that over seven years, were used only ten percent of funds allocated for the period 2007-2013. But not only. The U.S. computer giant IBM is a major beneficiary of EU contracts with over 24 million € pocketed a few projects in various countries of the European Union. Of that amount 15 million and 600,000 are reserved for a service center in Wroclaw in southern Poland, the other 2.6 million for a similar center in the Czech Republic and Hungary for another 985,000. In Italy, the local subsidiary of U.S. multinational has to date received € 3 million and 700,000 for the development of a laboratory for bio-informatics and the implementation of portals Trade online, useful for small and medium-sized enterprises in tourism, cultural heritage and agri-food.
In the Netherlands, IBM has partnered with two other companies, in a pilot project funded by the European Union to the tune of € 646,542, aimed at reducing energy consumption by 14 per cent of 500 households. As for Spain, however, the Valencia region is involved in the project to increase sales of IBM with EU money, as it has acquired the server and other components for computers manufactured by the company for a sum of € 638,820. The U.S. manufacturer Honeywell
weapons and aerospace technology has received 4 million and € 200 thousand for its research and development center in the czech Republic.
Even the giant Coca-Cola is in the list, with € 902,071 allocated from Brussels for the expansion of its production lines in Hungary and Estonia, as well as for staff training in Germany. Added to this is a Belgian project whose value has not been revealed.
As for the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has obtained much of € 1.8 million for its plant in Northern France aims to "increase the ability of freeze-drying of vaccines." Another great company in the same sector, Pfizer, has received € 196,352 for the construction of some projects in Belgium.
Dall’inchiesta dei giornalisti emerge un’amara verità: l’impossibilità di controllare il flusso del danaro da parte delle autorità centrali e il modo opaco in cui vengono spesi i fondi. Tra le cause principali un numero esiguo di investigatori anti-frode, pari a 25 unità, e una fitta rete di burocrati, che rende ardua la possibilità di sapere come i soldi vengono distribuiti e utilizzati. A rendere più grave la situazione è il ruolo svolto dalle regioni a cui fondi sono assegnati e in cui scompaiono tra la fitta rete delle maglie burocratiche. Per non parlare poi del sostegno dei fondi Ue sono proprio le multinazionali a stelle e strisce, battistrada dell’asservimento culturale ed economico di Washington sull’Europa-colonia.
U.S. multinationals, IBM, Honeywell, McDonald's and Coca Cola are among the recipients of EU regional funds. To reveal the sensational news
a database collected by a group of British journalists who has shown how the European Commission has provided lavish financing for U.S. companies such as IBM, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Honeywell. Then include as a beneficiary of the big pharmaceutical companies, some chains supermarkets, and European companies in the aerospace and defense, such as EADS and Dassault. Not surprisingly, to take the lead in the complaint were just the reporters of the newspaper of the City of London, Financial Times, which is linked to the British government and its finance Eurosceptic by definition and bitter enemy of a Europe independent of the Anglo-American.
investigation however shows that European structural funds are not spent. Exactly. Billion euro in fact intended to increase the depressed regions of the Old Continent remain in the coffers of Brussels, because governments do not have the financial resources additional to unlock them. From the database then it is clear that the € 347 billion so far distributed in 271 regions of 27 European countries and that over seven years, were used only ten percent of funds allocated for the period 2007-2013. But not only. The U.S. computer giant IBM is a major beneficiary of EU contracts with over 24 million € pocketed a few projects in various countries of the European Union. Of that amount 15 million and 600,000 are reserved for a service center in Wroclaw in southern Poland, the other 2.6 million for a similar center in the Czech Republic and Hungary for another 985,000. In Italy, the local subsidiary of U.S. multinational has to date received € 3 million and 700,000 for the development of a laboratory for bio-informatics and the implementation of portals Trade online, useful for small and medium-sized enterprises in tourism, cultural heritage and agri-food.
In the Netherlands, IBM has partnered with two other companies, in a pilot project funded by the European Union to the tune of € 646,542, aimed at reducing energy consumption by 14 per cent of 500 households. As for Spain, however, the Valencia region is involved in the project to increase sales of IBM with EU money, as it has acquired the server and other components for computers manufactured by the company for a sum of € 638,820. The U.S. manufacturer Honeywell
weapons and aerospace technology has received 4 million and € 200 thousand for its research and development center in the czech Republic.
Even the giant Coca-Cola is in the list, with € 902,071 allocated from Brussels for the expansion of its production lines in Hungary and Estonia, as well as for staff training in Germany. Added to this is a Belgian project whose value has not been revealed.
As for the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has obtained much of € 1.8 million for its plant in Northern France aims to "increase the ability of freeze-drying of vaccines." Another great company in the same sector, Pfizer, has received € 196,352 for the construction of some projects in Belgium.
Dall’inchiesta dei giornalisti emerge un’amara verità: l’impossibilità di controllare il flusso del danaro da parte delle autorità centrali e il modo opaco in cui vengono spesi i fondi. Tra le cause principali un numero esiguo di investigatori anti-frode, pari a 25 unità, e una fitta rete di burocrati, che rende ardua la possibilità di sapere come i soldi vengono distribuiti e utilizzati. A rendere più grave la situazione è il ruolo svolto dalle regioni a cui fondi sono assegnati e in cui scompaiono tra la fitta rete delle maglie burocratiche. Per non parlare poi del sostegno dei fondi Ue sono proprio le multinazionali a stelle e strisce, battistrada dell’asservimento culturale ed economico di Washington sull’Europa-colonia.
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