And £45,000 was spent on EU-branded flags, sashes, USB memory sticks and packaging as part of an “outreach” programme by the Committee of the Regions. British taxpayers coughed up £52,000 for the EU’s spending spree because of the Government’s commitment to continue funding the bloc until the end of the year. German MEP Joachim Kuhs fumed: “The Committee of the Regions is nothing more than a glorified talking shop, so to see them spend money in this way is a slap in the face for taxpayers.
“To give extra screens to already pampered eurocrats, and use propaganda as patronage to bribe local politicians into shamelessly promoting EU identity at a time of crisis is beyond belief.
“No wonder the British voted for Brexit when EU institutions waste money like this with little accountability.”
The spending was signed off in a backroom vote by the European Parliament’s budget committee earlier this week.
Last month Express.co.uk revealed eurocrats were planning to spend more than £1 million on stocking the EU’s history museum.
Brussels plans to fort on on business-class flights and hotels for couriers transporting “artefacts” from across the world to the site.
The European House of History based in the the Belgian capital is home to Brexit-bashing items, such as former Labour Party MEP Seb Dance’s handwritten sign “He’s lying to you” used to taunt Nigel Farage.
There is also a UK-EU “always united” scarf worn by Remainers on the UK’s final day of membership.
The museum, which cost taxpayers £47 million, will spend a further £1.4 million fetching relics.
Since opening in 2017, the EU-funded establishment has been previously described as a “house of horrors” and “an expensive, wrong-headed palace of propaganda”.
It has also emerged the bloc spent £23 million on circus acts in the last six years.
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