Irish build a house of sliced € 1,4 billion!?

Frank Buckley, an unemployed Irish artist, build a house from the remains of cut 1.4 billion euros (1.82 billion dollars), officials said.

The artist built his apartment in the lobby of an office building in Dublin, vacant by the graduation four years ago. Then was the peak of the ill-fated construction boom in the country.
The home was built with bricks cut by euro banknotes, which is borrowed from the Irish Mint.
"This is a reflection of all the madness that had gripped us," Buckley says of his work he calls "home for one billion euros."
"People have poured billions of euros in construction of buildings, which now cost nothing. I wanted to create something from nothing," he said.
Since Ireland joined the European Union and wildly out of the real estate market, her swept a wave of cheap credit. This caused outrage in 2007 when the country was pushed to the deepest recession among the industrialized countries. Thus, the former "Celtic Tiger" had to accept humiliating financial assistance from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
At the climax of the real estate fever Buckley receives 100 - percent mortgage to buy a house for € 365,000 on the outskirts of Dublin and they do not have a permanent income. The artist has parted with his wife, who now lives in the house, lost at least one third of its value.
"The home of one billion euros" Buckley inhabited by early December, working on "extension" of the kitchen to the living room and hallway.
"House" is so hot that Buckley sleep without a blanket. The walls are decorated with paintings made by notes and coins, including an image of a house. It is hand made from coins of 5 pence Irish. The walls and floor are covered with chopped Euros.
Buckley hopes that European politicians to resolve the debt crisis without destroying the currency.
But if the euro still fails, the artist will be happy to use the "victims" of euro banknotes as a raw material for future projects.

Who in Europe loves fruits and vegetables?

Poles generally are known as major consumers of sausages and similar delicacies, but they are the most greedy for fruit and vegetables in Europe, says a study of the European Council for Information on nutrition (EUFIC), conducted in 19 countries.

Poles top the list with 577 g average daily consumption of fruit and vegetables ahead of the Italians, whose indicator in this respect is 452 grams per day.



Only in Poland, Germany, Austria and Italy follow the recommendation to consume at least 400 grams of fruit and vegetables a day ", says the study published online onEUFIC.
France is ranked ninth in the rankings with an average of 342 grams per day per capita, as it were before Hungary, Estonia, Ireland and Belgium.
The Irish are in the queue in the group - they take only 186 grams fruit and vegetablesper day per person, before it were Sweden (237 grams) and the Czech Republic(253 grams). Important role in the consumption of fruits and vegetables plays ageographical location.