EU-funded seminars constitute a third formof bad welfare and a waste of talent because in most cases they recycle and disseminate public information and knowledge providing income for both, those who give them and those who take them-often the right political clientele-rather than a vehicle for defusing and disseminating genuine knowledge.
For most of the other allegations, officials either denied them or said they were "without knowledge or information sufficient to forma belief" of the veracity of the claims.