In timp ce media noastra se arata in mod deliberat foarte preocupata de faptul ca biata dna Udrea, in orice crisma ar intra, da acolo peste dl Basescu, aflat deja in consumatie la momentul respectiv, pe lumea asta se petrec lucruri mult mai interesante decit faptul ca ospatarii, doriti in numar mai mare de presedinte, mai ciordesc si ei la nota de plata niste bani pe care unii din fruntea tarii ii iau la rindul lor de la buget.
I-auzi, ia: BBC zice ca, dupa ce anul trecut preturile in zona euro au scazut cu 0,2%, anul acesta, in iulie, a venit o scadere privita ca record de 0,7%. Ce s-a intimplat la noi cu preturile? Media il lasa pe presedinte sa ne spuna, cind o crede el ca e momentul.
Ia mai luati de va uitati la ce mai zice BBC: pretul barilului de petrol a scazut pe la usd 70 barilul. Ce s-a intimplat la noi cu preturile la pompa de benzina si motorina? Au crescut, zic eu – dar nu va luati dupa mine, eu ii sunt defavorabil presedintele – dar mai bine il ascultati pe presedinte cum tace cu optimism, spre bucuria dlui Pogea care ia un volum mai mare de parale ca accize.
Ai dracului astia de la BBC, cum nu il lasa ei pe presedintele nostru sa ne dea el vestile si sparg complicitatea media romanesti, ia mai auziti ce zic: comenzile industriale in zona euro au crescut pe ansamblu cu 3,1% in luna iunie. In topul fericirii conduce Irlanda, tara in care comenzile industriale au crescut cu 14,8% iar in cel al nefericitilor se afla Danemarca – mai tineti minte, un eurodeputat de-al lor ne-a facut prosti – cu o scadere in comenzi de 29,9%. La noi? O sa ne zica dl presedinte dupa ce mai sta nitel in crisma, printre ospatarii lui dragi din care vrea cit mai multi. Pina la urma si ospatarii primesc comenzi; nu industriale, de servicii, dar poate de la unii in cantitati industriale.
Si nenorocitii astia de stiristi britanici nu se lasa: daca te iei dupa ei, Franta si Germania ies din recesiune – ceea ce inseamna ca incep sa iasa si din criza – iar despre Germania mai si zic ca au facut asta crescind exporturile cu 7%. Bai, a naibii fusta pe Merkel asta? Bai, da’ de ce nu or iesi ei din recesiune prin turism? Prosti nemtii astia, dar au noroc. Exporturile Romaniei cu cit or fi crescut? Aici e una dintre trebile pentru domnul presedinte. Dom’ presedinte, cu cit a crescut exportul nostru ca rezultat al activitatii dumneavoastra pe plan international? Degeaba intreb, nu ma aude, cred ca din cauza zgomotului de furculite si pahare din restaurantul de la Neptun. Ori poate i-o fi slabit auzul la Oedip, saracul.Dar si Enescu asta cinic a fost dom’le: facea si el un Oedip manelist, ori compunea o opera Pusca si cureaua lata pentru solistul Boc, nu chestii de astea de-ti slabeste auzul. Dar lasa ca tot presedintele ne informeaza si cum e cu exportul, tot la momentul oportun, dupa ce i-o trece greata de economistii care, evident, l-au dezinformat. Vedeti dom’ presedinte, daca nu i-ati luat cu lamiie pe econimistii astia, dom’ presedinte? Ca pe stridii, domnule, ca pe stridii. Toata lumea il dezinformeaza pe bietul presedintele nost’ care, in schimb, ne informeaza foarte corect, deoarece dupa propriile spuse este cel mai informat om din stat.
Dar aflam in schimb, din media romaneasca, cum ca presedintele este pe cai mari (probabil din rasa Mecklemburg) in chestiunea komisarului european pentru agricultura. Dl presedinte vrea cu osebire un komisar pentru agricultura. De ce? La ce? O sa pricepem, bre, dar cind va fi cam tirziu. Pina una-alta, ca sa incepem sa pricepem cite ceva de pe acum, un articol despre komisarii europeni, bineinteles in limba engleza si despre un subiect asupra caruia media bastinasa tace crezind ca daca nu zic ei, atunci nu zice nimeni. Poftiti de cititi, e cald, proaspat si pufos.
EU commissioners ‘take home more than €1m on leaving office’
A leading UK think tank claims that each of the outgoing EU commissioners stand to receive more than €1.1m in pension payments and so-called ‘transitional’ and ‘resettlement’ allowances.
The 20 officials who are expected to leave their posts this autumn will receive a total of €26m in payouts, according to Open Europe, the London-based independent think tank.
Open Europe, which campaigns for reform of the EU, claims that some commissioners are set to receive even bigger settlements when they step down than that paid to Peter Mandelson when the Briton left his post as trade commissioner last year to become the new business secretary in Gordon Brown’s government.
The organisation says the commission’s Swedish vice president Margot Wallstrom will receive almost €2.05m when she leaves the commission in October and that UK trade commissioner Catherine Ashton will qualify for an “ample” pension of €10,900 a year.
It says this is on top of three years of ‘transition’ payments, valued at over €101,000 a year and a €20,400 ‘resettlement’ allowance she will receive.
“All of this is in addition to the salaries and perks that commissioners are entitled to during their term of service,” said an Open Europe statement.
Commissioners are thought to receive basic salaries of at least €250,000 a year (more for vice-presidents and the president) and Open Europe says that in one five-year term alone a commissioner earns in excess of €1.1m.
It says the €313,000 annual salary paid to commission president Jose Manuel Barroso is “almost exactly equivalent to US President Barack Obama’s salary.”
The statement says this is in addition to a “host” of other perks, which include residence allowances of 15 per cent of their salary (€45,000) and monthly ‘entertainment allowances’.
It goes on, “In total, the team of 27 commissioners has cost the (UK) taxpayer more than €79m, in this five-year term – including salaries, pensions, and the various allowances.
“This does not include other perks that commissioners receive during their service, such as family allowances and subsistence allowances. The pension costs alone amount to more than €37m.”
Open Europe analyst Sarah Gaskell said, “Taxpayers around Europe, whose pensions have been swallowed up in the recession, will rightly question why they are footing such an enormous bill for a handful of remote officials who they never voted for in the first place.”
“It is a topsy-turvy world when an unelected EU official is earning the same wage as the democratically elected president of the United States.”
Gaskell told this website on Wednesday that some commissioners had already responded to the research with Mariann Fischer Boel, commissioner for agriculture and rural development, saying EU commissioners were “worth the money”.
She said former commissioner Louis Michel, who was elected an MEP in June, had expressed surprise at the figures, saying commissioners were “well paid for the job they do.”
“We used the commission’s own data and the figures were not disputed in any way,” said Gaskell.
