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Friday, 02 November 2007
Portugal and Brussels are being accused ‘pathetic vanity’ for refusing to compromise over the location of the signing ceremony for the European Constitution Reform Treaty.

Portugal, as current holders of the EU presidency are pushing for the signing ceremeony (on December 13) to be held in Portugal. However December 13 is the first day of the EU summit being held in Brussels, and as such Belgium is pushing for the signing ceremony to be moved to Brussels.

The compromise? All 27 EU leaders, their staff and EU staff will travel to Lisbon in the morning for the signing ceremony, then they will all travel from Lisbon to Brussels for the summit that evening.

The London Times has calculated this travel at 77,000km, and this is a most conservative figure.

    Frequent flyers

    77,000 extra kilometres will be flown by EU heads of government in order to sign the treaty in Lisbon

    27 private jets flying that distance produce more than 135 tonnes of carbon dioxide

    135 tonnes of C02 is 60 times the combined weight of all EU heads of government

    200 trees, a small copse, would be required to offset the carbon fumes from the travels of the heads of government

    The wood from those trees would provide enought paper to print 2,800 copies of the 250-page EU treaty in each of the EU’s 23 official languages.
 
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