As there is no shortish of ambassadors, it is hardly a Disincentive. THey pay of course only for the private parts of the residence ambassadors are public servant and they all have to pay for their private accommodation. ANd of course it is not the real market value. . Being abroad or being at home. TImes have changed were such perks of the job were taken for granted. But the systems vary form state to state.
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: Well paying for the catering for a personal
: event in a Embasy or publicly owned
: residence is perfectly reasonable. But
: ambassadors are forced by their job to live
: in a residence and to me it seems
: astonishing that any govern men should force
: this (bearing in mind that many ambassadors
: will own a personal family home which they
: must maintain, even if they rent it out. It
: would seem to be a MA ssive disincentive to
: enter public service. While diplomats have
: chosen that career knowing that they will
: seldom spend more than 3-4 years in one
: place, their children will have to
: constantly,change schools, and they will
: have to live in houses which while often
: looking grand on the outside may often have
: woefully inadequate or ancient bathrooms,
: kitchens, etc and they will be unable to do
: anything about it. Having to pay to have
: one's family live with one would seem to be
: an extraordinary disincentive to choose this
: career, which compared with the kind of jobs
: that a diplomat's skills might command in
: the private sector, is not particularly
: well-paid.
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: No..not the minister who uses his official
: residence. Although I think that if f.e. the
: Dutch ambassador to France uses his official
: residence for a wedding reception for his
: daughter, he would have to pay for the
: catering from his own money since it is a
: private event and not an event he organizes
: in his official capacity.
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: The same with the luncheon the Queen offered
: her brother and his bride. This was a
: private event, not a state event.
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: Would that mean, for example, that a
: government minister who was provided with an
: official residence would have to pay rent
: for the use made of it by his wife and
: children? Ridiculous.
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: A member of the Dutch government has got
: much
: publicity (even more than he already gets
: these days..) due to the fact that his
: pre-wedding party was held in Paris, in the
: rather posh Dutch Embassy.
: Questions were raised why he would only pay
: for the catering and not for the use of this
: building - which is, after all, funded and
: maintained by tax-payers money.
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: Dutch news-papers now have found out that
: Queen Maxima used the - equally posh - Dutch
: Embassy in Vienna, June 2014, to offer a
: lunch for her brother Juan Zorreguieta, his
: bride Andrea Wolf and all their wedding
: guests.
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: To be continued:
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: http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/26954015/__Broer_Maxima_gratis_in_residentie__.html
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