Monday, April 19, 2010

Vacationing a human right, EU chief says

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/news/Vacationing+human+right+chief+says/2924330/story.html



The European Union has declared travelling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers' dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips.

Antonio Tajani, the European Union commissioner for enterprise and industry, proposed a strategy that could cost European taxpayers hundreds of millions of euros a year, The Times of London reports