Research from the Taxpayers’ Alliance UK finds that government subsidies to Britain’s rail system since the pandemic have totalled a staggering £42 Billion. That’s an average of over £1,300 from every taxpayer. 

The UK Government has recovered £18 million from fraudulent personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts. This represents just under 3%. The figures are based on estimates that 5% of the £12.6 billion in government contracts were fraudulent.…

The authority acting on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Staatliche Bauamt Traunstein, was not exactly lucky in the construction of the Heilig-Geist-Steg over the B304 in Traunstein, which cost around two million…

The Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate in Germany calls on Germans to save energy and provides some savings tips in a campaign worth millions: "Don't shower for so long!", "When cooking lid on…

To reduce energy consumption and expand renewable energies more quickly, the German government has launched an extraordinarily expensive information campaign. The concrete contribution of the campaign to the stated goals is unclear.

In Egelsbach, Hesse, a new roundabout was built for 125,000 euros. It should serve as a bus turning loop. But unfortunately, the roundabout was too small. Now the area is to be rebuilt for 75,000…

At the end of the election campaign of 2002, Swedens’ then Prime minister Göran Persson launched the idea of maximum kindergarten tariff (maxtaxa). Those whom benifited by this was almost exclusively a voter segment which…

In 2020 the Swedish party The Sweden democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) presented a suggestion about so called ”helicopter money”, in other words that all Swedish citizens were suggested to receive a one time subsidy of SEK 10 000…

The City of Stockholm, Sweden, decided to produce its own digital interface between parents and schools. The School Platform was launched in 2018, late and over budget. Although the platform had cost about SEK 1…