The expenditure list of the previous Barroso´s team shows that European citizens have paid around €3.5 million euros for the representatives travel costs during the last years.

Europe's taxpayers were also charged in around €360,000 in “representation costs” – which means dinners and gifts given to other officials. The commission president spent over €700,000 of the bill while external relations commissioner Benita Ferrerro Waldner accounted €435,257 being the second highest. The most modest spender was Lithuania's commissioner, Dalia Grybauskaite, who served until last summer.

However, one commissioner travelled even more than Jose Manuel Barroso himself - Vladimir Spidla, in charge of employment and social affairs, made 67 trips, but mostly in side EU countries.

Not bad if we have in consideration that the standard gross salary of an EU commissioner is around €20,000 per month, plus residence allowances of 15 percent of their salary and a monthly "entertainment allowance" of  €600, out of which the commissioner can deduct meals and protocol-related gifts. The president’s salary is €24,422 a month and his entertainment allowance comes to €1,418 a month.

It is truth that Mr Barroso travels a lot and “the European Commission doesn't have an official plane, unlike governments," said the Commission spokesperson, but will the next team take into account the crisis happening in Europe and the cost of all this in economic, social and even environmental resources?