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: Of course if an ambassador gives a purely
: private function for his family, he should
: pay for the catering. But to have him pay
: for his wife and children to live with him
: is (despite what Cabri believes) a massive
: disincentive. Having a close family member
: who has recently served in several major EU
: cities (as well as Pakistan), but still
: keepS a house in London for when he serves
: in the FCO, since each posting was just for
: 3 years, to have to have paid for the
: accommodation of his wife and children would
: have made it impossible to serve. It is not
: particularly well paid, even at a high level
: compared with the private sector, and while
: there are subsidies for schooling, etc,
: these do not cover it all. In this case, the
: individual who was a scholar at one of
: England's great schools, got a scholarship
: to Oxford and a double first, could have
: earned very much larger salaries in the
: private sector (a multiple of his actual
: pay). Why would someone choose such a career
: if he or she was to be financially penalised
: or required to live separately from his
: family? Surely the state should try and
: attract the highest calibre of individual
: for its senior positions?
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: Some Embassies host a great many functions
: in
: the official residency (network events,
: diners, performances, lectures etc.) but its
: up to the Ambassador to decide which are
: fitting and inline with the mission of the
: Embassy. I am sure the Foreign Office has a
: guideline. Some residences are being used
: intensively others sparsely. Some
: ambassadors ( and especially their wives)
: prefer not to host too many events as it can
: be a strain on their privacy. It all depends
: on the (size of the) particular residence
: and the individual ambassador how willing
: they are to accommodate requests. Having
: said that, based on what I have read what
: happened in Paris and Vienna had nothing to
: do with the work and mission of the Embassy.
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: Isn't the point here the Queen hosting a
: lunch
: for her brother in the Dutch Embassy in
: Vienna? What does it has to do with
: Ambassadors paying to live in the Embassies?
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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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: --Previous Message--
: 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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