EU row erupts between Macron and Merkel after France accused of wasting £84m of EU funds
was accused of wasting €100million of European taxpayers' money to prop up his own “European vanity projects”. DW’s Tim Sebastian told key Macron ally and leading MEP Nathalie Loiseau that France’s demand to have the European Parliament move once a month to Strasbourg was damaging the environment and wasting millions of euros a year. Ms Loiseau responded by claiming that Germany was equally guilty of wasting money on European vanity projects by housing the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
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