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ddstory.livejournal.comBig government, you say? Fine, then...
"It's 9:30 a.m. Mr and Mrs MEP are at their office. Mr MEP wants to send a letter, but he doesn't have an envelope. His assistant brings him an envelope. Mr MEP puts the letter in the envelope and gives it to the courier. The courier delivers it to the postman..."
Turns out, you need 4 people so a Member of the European Parliament could send a letter somewhere. In the 21st century. That's the lesson you end up with, having read the curious booklet "Mr and Mrs MEP and Their Helpers", which became a hit lately, but not among the 7 year olds (for which it was originally designed), but rather among their parents.
After Bruno Waterfield wrote in his blog at The Telegraph about this booklet, many people decided this was just some dumb prank. But it turned out the "joke" was on the MEPs themselves, because the educational booklet is indeed for real. It's been printed with European funds, in 15,000 copies, and they're being given out during the "open-gates days" around the EU institutions (since the beginning of May). Exactly who's responsible for that campaign, and what its exact cost is, remains unclear at this point.
If we look closer at the booklet, turns out the MEPs don't do anything particularly demanding, apart from wasting EU funds and enjoying some serious privileges.
( So let's have a closer look at the booklet, then )
"It's 9:30 a.m. Mr and Mrs MEP are at their office. Mr MEP wants to send a letter, but he doesn't have an envelope. His assistant brings him an envelope. Mr MEP puts the letter in the envelope and gives it to the courier. The courier delivers it to the postman..."
Turns out, you need 4 people so a Member of the European Parliament could send a letter somewhere. In the 21st century. That's the lesson you end up with, having read the curious booklet "Mr and Mrs MEP and Their Helpers", which became a hit lately, but not among the 7 year olds (for which it was originally designed), but rather among their parents.
After Bruno Waterfield wrote in his blog at The Telegraph about this booklet, many people decided this was just some dumb prank. But it turned out the "joke" was on the MEPs themselves, because the educational booklet is indeed for real. It's been printed with European funds, in 15,000 copies, and they're being given out during the "open-gates days" around the EU institutions (since the beginning of May). Exactly who's responsible for that campaign, and what its exact cost is, remains unclear at this point.
If we look closer at the booklet, turns out the MEPs don't do anything particularly demanding, apart from wasting EU funds and enjoying some serious privileges.
( So let's have a closer look at the booklet, then )
