{"id":254819,"date":"2023-04-26T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254819"},"modified":"2023-04-26T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:58:44","slug":"europes-prince-of-private-jets-eu-council-president-charles-michels-700000-euros-for-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254819","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Prince Of Private Jets: EU Council President Charles Michel\u2019s 700,000 Euros For Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>25. April 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preach water, guzzle wine by the gallon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That seems to be what Belgian EU Council President Charles Michel preaches to Europeans as they struggle to pay their ever increasing energy bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>The Prince of Private Jets, climate hypocrisy. 700,000 euros of taxpayer money spent on private jet flights, some to climate conferences. EU Council President Charles Michel. Image:\u00a0CC BY 2.0<\/a>,\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France\u2019s\u00a0Le Monde news daily reports<\/a>\u00a0on how EU Council President Charles Michel \u201cspent a staggering 700,000 euros on private jet flights last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Short city-hops \u201cin true bourgeois style\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s online Pleiteticker here reacts<\/a>: \u201cFor while he pleads for climate protection in Brussels, he himself flies for an unbelievable 700,000 euros by private jet, even the shortest distances, such as Brussels-Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt least 700,000 euros are said to be spent on flights with private jets from the company \u2018Luxaviation\u2019 alone, Pleiteticker<\/a> adds. \u201cIn true bourgeois style, he wants even more money next year for even more flights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More excerpts from Pleiteticker<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, it is not only on long-distance trips to China that Michel treats himself to luxury flights on private jets. He also spares no expense on really very short distances within Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brussels to Paris (300 km)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor example, from Brussels to Vienna to meet the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, round trip: 20,533 euros. Or from Brussels to Paris, the journey by train takes less than 90 minutes \u2013 Michel preferred to fly to the French capital for 37,500 euros. For the same sum, he also went to Berlin to see the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in February 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flight to climate summit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was followed by 5 flights to Strasbourg to the European Parliament (12,250 to 35,000 euros each), a flight to the climate summit (!) \u2018COP27\u2019 to Egypt together with Ursula von der Leyen, cost: 103,632 euros Return flight: 50,550 euros.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brussels to Beijing: \u20ac460,000!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe absolute top of the spending madness, however, was the flight to Beijing for a meeting with Xi Jinping. The outward and return flight together cost an unbelievable 460,000 euros (!).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cMore on one trip than some people do their whole lives\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHypocrisy and Bourgeoise\u201d criticized Pleiteticker, especially in view that the EU has committed to becoming \u201cclimate neutral\u201d by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that one then flies so insanely often and expensively and thus pollutes the climate more on one trip to China and back than some people do their whole lives is nothing but double standards and hypocrisy,\u201d Pleiteticker comments further. \u201cAt times, it degenerates into the absurd: For example, Michel travelled to the climate summit by private jet or to the \u2018One Ocean Summit\u2019, a meeting for the protection of the oceans in Brest, France, by plane.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entire article at Pleiteticker.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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