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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.
I totally agree with you.
If used for a private function, the catering, securiy etc should be paid by he/she who benefits from the use of the embassy.
But it is hard to understand that the ambassador should pay for his lodging.
He might have a house at his own country that he has to maintain.
He wouldn't probably need such a grand house as embassies usually are with 20-more rooms.
Even if he is asked a symbolic rent.
He is a government officer who has a commission abroad imposed on him by the government so it is fair that his lodging is paid by his "boss".
In the private sector, if you are appointed to run some foreign branch of your company, you usually receive a sum to relocate or, if the company owns some accomodations in that country, you just move there.
In Lisbon, many embassies are former grand aristocratic palaces and I doubt the ambassador's wage would allow him to rent/keep the house.
That's why the aristocrats had to leave in first place.
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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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