http://www.telegraph....ealthy-countries.html
While Britain and most of Europe are suffering cut-backs after cut-backs, the overseas aid coffers are spewing money out on ridicules projects to some of the World's richest nations, among them China, Russia, Brazil, Iceland and Barbados.
/// * Brazil, which will spend £9 billion on the Olympics in 2016, received more than £10 million in European aid for schemes including £660,000 spent on the social integration of women living in fishing communities and £120,000 on the 'integration of indigenous city dwellers’. ///
/// Russia, with more than 100 billionaires, was given £40 million, including £240,000 for an arts project in St Petersburg. ///
/// Iceland, a country officially wealthier than the UK and which refuses to re-pay £2.3 billion owed to Britain in the credit crunch, receives about £4.2 million including £400,000 for a scheme to promote tourism in Katla national park; ///
/// Argentina, one of the G20 major economies and whose relations with the UK remain strained over the Falklands, was earmarked £9.5 million in aid. ///
/// Turkey, whose economy enjoyed one of the fastest growth rates in 2011, but was the biggest recipient of EU aid with £620 million pledged in 2011. Projects including funding for a television series about the EU. ///
And then there is Barbados,
http://www.telegraph....pent-in-Barbados.html
Can this be right?