Ethiopia... Yes, you know, that well known European Country?

[anonymous-user]

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[mybrainhurts]

Blimey...

They'll be funding Wales next...

[elster]

Normally the world bank are the ones who hand the cash over.

[FourWheelDrift]

They can't seem to be able to do anything without outside help.

[mechsympathy]

Most of the roads (as opposed to tracks) in Malawi have signs informing you that the EU have paid for them. Which is nice.

[Puggit]

I bet the Chinese are laughing. They've got their claws in all over Africa, and getting the Europeans to build them a railway to carry Ethiopia's raw materials to the coast so they can ship them off to Shanghai is the icing on the cake!

[RobB.]

mechsympathy said:

Most of the roads (as opposed to tracks) in Malawi have signs informing you that the EU have paid for them. Which is nice.

It makes me so proud to see my taxes spent wisely.

[AJS-]

elster said:

Normally the world bank are the ones who hand the cash over.

Haha
What a great democracy, when we don't even know which unelected supranational quango is pissing our money away on Ethiopian railways.

[FoolOnTheHill]

As the Macc lads once said.

"These foreigners need sorting out, they're always having either droughts or flooding."

[elster]

AJS- said:

elster said:

Normally the world bank are the ones who hand the cash over.

Haha
What a great democracy, when we don't even know which unelected supranational quango is pissing our money away on Ethiopian railways.

Don't worry they have signed many of my pay cheques.

World Bank/EU/IMF it almost all comes from western countries for development.