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The French EU presidency was most expensive ever (Photo: the_amanda)

Let's reduce the cost of Europe

Back in the 1980s, an important piece of research by Paolo Cecchini looked at the benefits that would be gained by creating the single market, dubbed the "cost of non-Europe". The French national audit office has published figures this week that reveal the opposite, the cost of Europe.

The French presidency held in the second half of 2008 is revealed to have cost 171 million euros, or nearly 1 million euros per day. Previous French presidencies had cost 56.9 million euros in 2000 and...

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The French EU presidency was most expensive ever (Photo: the_amanda)

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