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News Archive 2004

20/10/2004
Berlaymont – the lasting monument to Neil Kinnock

Romano Prodi and Neil Kinnock are expected to attend the opening of the European Commission's new HQ tomorrow which has been beset with problems since the early 1990s.

Speaking ahead of the official opening of the Berlaymont building, Jonathan Evans MEP, Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, said:"No-one ever seems to have taken a grip on this issue, and as a result, this building has cost taxpayers across Europe over six hundred million pounds.
No-one can explain why it took four years to actually start removing the asbestos after it was discovered, or why it took another nine years to reopen the building.

It sums up the problems with the current set-up - millions and millions of pounds spent on a grandiose building that has sat empty for 13 years.

Neil Kinnock was supposed to have been in charge of this project and this vast building will sit there as his lasting monument."

(from Conservatives.com)

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