European Parliament 5540 European Council and Council 3117 European Commission 24617 Court of Justice of the European Union 1547 Court of Auditors 752 European Economic and Social Committee 689 Committee of the Regions 488 European Ombudsman 22 European Data Protection Supervisor 43 European External Action Service 1667
Average salary per EU institutions, 2012 budget.
European Parliament 109,354.29 EUR European Council and Council 98,659.59 EUR European Commission 133,042.28 EUR Court of Justice of the European Union 120,409.29 EUR Court of Auditors 110,742.09 EUR European Economic and Social Committee 87,223.82 EUR Committee of the Regions 92,775.27 EUR European Ombudsman 239,840.80 EUR European Data Protection Supervisor 98,468.52 EUR European External Action Service 80,869.68 EUR
It's not obvious to find these numbers in the budget, so we'll have to use a hack. EU permanent staff pays 10.25% of their salaries to the pension fund. Pension contributions are accounted for as revenue, so they are consolidated the section 4 1 0 here. For 2012, pension contributions were at 483mln euros. By means of a simple extrapolation, we can now evaluate the amount paid in salaries to 4.7 bln euros, i.e. 6.5% of the EU budget. With the number of permanent position at 38 482, this gives an average of ~122 000 euros/year salary.
Naturally, the distribution of income is rather unequal at the instititions, with high earners being paid 7 times more that low earners (18 370 vs 2 654 euros/months base salary)
They have a consolidated revenue volume, but expenditure is spread over several volumes. This was designed to make budgeting easier to understand, yeah…
Our super-duper high-tech IT-savvy EU commissionner Neelie Kroes messed up EU-Azerbaijan relations recently, first claiming that the computers of her collbarators were hacked during an official visit to Baku, then silently sending the two people involved in the accusation on holidays.
It looks like the two "collaborators" of Neelie Kroes stumbled upon the "suspicious activity" popup window while connecting to their email accounts from Azerbaijan.
The old table structure
image_attach → image → files
becomes
field_data_field_image → file_managed
Assuming that the database name is test, imagefield is named field_image. file access type is public and the files folder is located in DRUPAL_ROOT,
fill the field_data_field_image table:
INSERT INTO file_managed (fid, uid, filename, uri, filemime, filesize, status, timestamp)
SELECT DISTINCT f.fid fid, f.uid uid, REPLACE(f.filepath, 'files/images/', '') filename, REPLACE(f.filepath, 'files/images/', 'public://') uri,
f.filemime filemime, f.filesize filesize, f.status status, f.timestamp timestamp
FROM image_attach ia, image i, files f WHERE ia.iid=i.nid AND i.fid=f.fid AND f.filename='_original' AND;
then, fill the file_managed table:
INSERT INTO field_data_field_image (entity_type, bundle, deleted, entity_id, revision_id, language, delta, field_image_fid, field_image_alt, field_image_title, field_image_width, field_image_height)
SELECT DISTINCT 'node' node, 'event' bundle, 0 deleted, ia.nid entity_id, n.vid revision_id, 'und' language, 0 delta, f.fid field_image_fid, '' field_image_alt, '' field_image_title, NULL field_image_width, NULL field_image_height
FROM image_attach ia, image i, files f, node n WHERE n.nid = ia.nid AND ia.iid=i.nid AND i.fid=f.fid AND f.filename='_original';
As the default location of uploaded images changed, we should move files
Did you know that Belgium holds the honourable first place among the last 10 countries in the Global Right to Information Rating?
Now, you do.
This page on Employing workers has at least 3 errors that can be easily spotted by anyone having worked in Belgium for a while. How cute. And it did not change from 2011, when I first spotted the inaccuracies.
There's been a fair amount of talk about FairSearch.org in US, and how ill-though their campaigning is.
One of my clients is now rolling out ads for FairSearchEurope.eu. Just as its US counterpart, FairSearchEurope.eu is very shy of itself. It's website is registered to a law firm, its founding is unclear, it banners are the most obvious examples of FUD tactics I have seen in the past years. Come on, dudes! There are so many reasons to attack Google, don't whine about the only thing that works, their search engine.