Guy Verhofstadt is one of those politicians in Brussels who demand new and new sanctions against Russia at the cost of new and new restrictions, despite the fact that none of the sanctions work. In the meantime, however, it turned out that Verhofstadt renovated his luxury villa with public money, thus saving the family coffers, reports the international news agency V4NA.

Millions of Europeans need to tighten their belts. More and more people are questioning the sanctions against Russia and the import ban on Russian energy carriers. Some European politicians, behind their huge salaries and luxury apartments, are demanding even tougher – senseless – sanctions, for which the European people will have to pay the price.

Guy Verhofstadt

Guy Verhofstadt, far-left Belgian politician Source: mandiner

Guy Verhofstadt, former prime minister of Belgium and MEP of the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, lives in a beautifully renovated 17th-century riverside heritage building in downtown Ghent, Belgium. He is constantly campaigning for even tougher sanctions.

Just a few days ago, he posted on his official Twitter page that he is demanding additional sanctions against Russia in the field of energy carriers. In Brussels, they believe that this sacrifice must be made, even if it requires savings from all citizens of the union.

A Belgian portal reported how Verhofstadt "saved" when he renovated his own house. As it turned out, the liberal politician halved his expenses by receiving hundreds of thousands of euros in public funds to renovate his house.

According to press reports, the liberal politician and his family bought the listed building - in which he still lives today - in 2011 together with two other families. the Knack report, in 2012 the costs of the renovation of the Verhofstadt residence were estimated at roughly 820,000 euros, but almost half of this was paid with Belgian taxpayers.

For the renovation, the former prime minister received significant support from the Flemish government, the province of East Flanders and the city of Ghent, totaling 327,784 euros, according to information from the Knack news portal.

The city council of Ghent rejected the criticism with the absurd argument that the money went to the listed building, not the owner, and that the renovation contributes to the development of the cityscape. Although the house was uninhabitable before the renovation, they were able to buy it for less than the market price. In this way, many residents of Ghent obviously wanted to contribute to the development of the cityscape...

However, thanks to generous support, the Verhofstadts were able to get away with almost half the cost of building their family home.

By the way, many people were outraged by the hundreds of thousands of euros of support and found the matter distasteful, at a time when the government changed the energy saving measures.

This meant that after certain housing renovation and modernization investments, people no longer received as much tax relief as before, so construction or renovation became significantly more expensive.

Source: origo.hu

Opening image: Source: V4NA