Costs arising from the high-level meetings on Greece's financial problems

17.7.2015

Question for written answer P-011545-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Inese Vaidere (PPE)

Greece is the only country in the European Union that has been the principal subject of so many high-level EU meetings. Unlike other Member States that have successfully implemented austerity measures in order to return quickly to economic growth, the Greek Government and the majority of its citizens have rejected the creditors' demands for fiscal reforms in exchange for a loan to its economy. Nevertheless, the question of the Greek bailout has frequently filled the agenda of European Council meetings and the meetings of the euro area leaders and the Eurogroup, during both regular and special meetings.

In this connection, as a member of the EP Budget Committee from Latvia, a country that successfully undertook the necessary austerity measures as a condition for financial support, I would like to ask the following question:

What would be the total expenditure from the EU’s and the Member States' budgets associated with the planning and organisation of the Euro Summits and the meetings of the Eurogroup and the other high-level EU meetings at which Greece’s financial problems have been the principal item on the agenda?