The EU's border and coast agency, Frontex, holds a one-day event annually every May to celebrate itself, often attracting several hundred participants.
And almost every year, expenses soar to ever greater heights.
In 2015, it spent just over €94,000 for a dinner at the swanky Belvedere restaurant in Warsaw, according to documents released by a freedom-of-information request to EUobserver.
The feast was the finale of the so-called European Border and Coast Guard Day, a celeb...
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