The EU has wasted £1.5million on a lift that goes nowhere. It doesn’t start and it doesn’t stop.
In fact it doesn’t move at all. ever. It’s a lift that never lifts anything or anyone. One hundred and twenty feet high, the mountain lift in the small and inaccessible sicilian village of sutera was built in 2012, supposedly to link the vil- lage with a hilltop monastery and boost tourism.
But the local council thinks the operating costs of £75,000 a year are a complete waste of money, so it – perfectly sensibly – refuses to spend a penny on it.
And thus the edifice sits empty and still, known locally as “the lift to nowhere”. In a normal world such a bonkers waste of money on a lift that has no purpose for a council that doesn’t want to use it would be a scandal.
Add in the mafia angle – there’s good reason to believe that this is merely the latest in a long line of eU projects that have seen taxpayer grants siphoned off into mobsters’ pockets – and it’s even more appalling. But in the Alice in Wonder- land world of EU grants, it barely even registers on the scale.
In 2012, for example, the Italian government had to repay a whopping £307million after it was discovered that an eU-funded motorway scheme was in reality little more than a front for mafia kickbacks, bribes and siphoning off of eU funds. Not that it’s just Italy. Full story...
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In fact it doesn’t move at all. ever. It’s a lift that never lifts anything or anyone. One hundred and twenty feet high, the mountain lift in the small and inaccessible sicilian village of sutera was built in 2012, supposedly to link the vil- lage with a hilltop monastery and boost tourism.
But the local council thinks the operating costs of £75,000 a year are a complete waste of money, so it – perfectly sensibly – refuses to spend a penny on it.
And thus the edifice sits empty and still, known locally as “the lift to nowhere”. In a normal world such a bonkers waste of money on a lift that has no purpose for a council that doesn’t want to use it would be a scandal.
Add in the mafia angle – there’s good reason to believe that this is merely the latest in a long line of eU projects that have seen taxpayer grants siphoned off into mobsters’ pockets – and it’s even more appalling. But in the Alice in Wonder- land world of EU grants, it barely even registers on the scale.
In 2012, for example, the Italian government had to repay a whopping £307million after it was discovered that an eU-funded motorway scheme was in reality little more than a front for mafia kickbacks, bribes and siphoning off of eU funds. Not that it’s just Italy. Full story...
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