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Just hours after Conchita wursts winning song died away, work began to demolish large parts of the newly built Eurovision plant B & W Hallerne.
Brand new asphalt roads will be torn up and filled with soil, the newly laid arena floor removed and a newly installed internet for tens of millions could be dug up.
The reason is the EU competition rules which says that public funds should not be used to renovate privately owned facilities, which B & W Hallerne is.
Expensive construction
After it became clear that Denmark would host the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was charged with the serious money to find the ultimate venue for the event.
The choice fell on the former shipyard hall B & W Hallerne in Copenhagen, a local who usually used by The Royal Theatre.
To the stadium would fit ESC arrangement was big money on the renovation and conversion.
The budget of DKK 50 million was blown up and the politicians got inject additional 23 million. Money that taxpayers had to pay for.
"How the heck could it go so wrong?"
Many have expressed dissatisfaction with the rules, which is seen as a big waste of resources.
- We have had it up at our last meeting, everyone agrees that we need to examine how the heck it has been able to go this wrong and if anyone should be held accountable. I do not think I can find one Dane who can see the sense in spending so many millions on something when we then have to tear it all down again, says Mette Abdilgaard, local politician for the Conservative People's Party in Copenhagen.
Investigating alternative
Parts of the demolition work has already begun, but several Copenhagen Politicians now hope that private investors can enter and pay pieces of equipment.
Something that would then make that EU rules can be circumvented and B & W-hall were allowed to remain in renovated form.
Just hours after Conchita wursts winning song died away, work began to demolish large parts of the newly built Eurovision plant B & W Hallerne.
Brand new asphalt roads will be torn up and filled with soil, the newly laid arena floor removed and a newly installed internet for tens of millions could be dug up.
The reason is the EU competition rules which says that public funds should not be used to renovate privately owned facilities, which B & W Hallerne is.
Expensive construction
After it became clear that Denmark would host the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was charged with the serious money to find the ultimate venue for the event.
The choice fell on the former shipyard hall B & W Hallerne in Copenhagen, a local who usually used by The Royal Theatre.
To the stadium would fit ESC arrangement was big money on the renovation and conversion.
The budget of DKK 50 million was blown up and the politicians got inject additional 23 million. Money that taxpayers had to pay for.
"How the heck could it go so wrong?"
Many have expressed dissatisfaction with the rules, which is seen as a big waste of resources.
- We have had it up at our last meeting, everyone agrees that we need to examine how the heck it has been able to go this wrong and if anyone should be held accountable. I do not think I can find one Dane who can see the sense in spending so many millions on something when we then have to tear it all down again, says Mette Abdilgaard, local politician for the Conservative People's Party in Copenhagen.
Investigating alternative
Parts of the demolition work has already begun, but several Copenhagen Politicians now hope that private investors can enter and pay pieces of equipment.
Something that would then make that EU rules can be circumvented and B & W-hall were allowed to remain in renovated form.
