How the EU wastes billions on silly projects and fills the pockets of dictators...

Billions of taxpayers’ cash is being spent on spurious aid projects through the EU, including giving dance lessons to Africans who earn less than 70p a day.

Britons pay £1.4billion towards the EU’s £10billion aid budget, but much of the money is going to corrupt regimes or projects where no checks are made that it is properly spent.

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Malawi – which recently outlawed flatulence in public and ruled that gay people could face 14 years’ jail – will get £450million in aid money over five years. Malawi’s president Bingu Mutharika bought a jet shortly after receiving the latest tranche of EU cash.

Uganda is getting £407million over five years. President Yoweri Museni, 67, who fought an election with posters depicting him as Rambo, bought a Gulfstream G550 jet. He has also built a lavish £100million residence while most of his people live in poverty. Full story...

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