Here is an article about the warengo investigation
https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1464270.html
It starts with a comparison with a few other monarchies (Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden). If there is anything to review, then it is the monarchy of "Les Pays-Bas" which seems dwarfing the other listed monarchies in costs and personnel (or the Dutch are just the most open and transparant). If I was opposing the Dutch monarchy, the Waringo Report is feed to fire gunshots to it.
I am still reading in the preface, building up to the conclusions. Still at office now.
Most important conclusions:
1.
The most decisions in recruiting, transfering, commissioning and decommissioning of staff were more and more taken by HRH The Grand-Duchess in own person. Jeannot Waringo thought that this grip of the Grand-Duchess on HRM affairs could be 'problematic'.
2.
There is an insufficient organogram of the Court Organization, leading to confusion of roles, responsibilities and accountabilities within the Court. This contributed to a "not positive" atmosphere at the Court and to lots of movement of staff (relatively a lot of decommissions).
3.
The recommendation is to professionalise the Human Resources Management and let it be done by professionals indeed: "There are a lot of pieces for a puzzle, but there is no puzzle at the moment".
4.
Jeannot Waringo recommends a greater transparency in the finances of the Court.
5.
The advice is to establish a legal entity called "The Grand-Ducal House" to separate it more clearly from the private persons of the grand-ducal family (I am most surprised this has not been done many decades ago!).
Calculations according the report:
Budget of the Grand-Ducal House: 10,6 million Euro
Budget of the Swedish Royal House: 13,3 million Euro
Budget of the Belgian Royal House: 36,6 million Euro
Budget of the Dutch Royal House: 80 million Euro *
* The actual Budget is 40 million Euro but Waringo mentions that the amount is doubled for the indirect costs allocated to the monarchy (the palaces, the security, etc.)
Waringo:
"Au total, la Liste civile des Pays-Bas serait l’une des plus élevées des Monarchies européennes. A noter toutefois qu’en raison de la discrétion de la plupart des Monarchies, il est très difficile d’avoir des données précises et comparables au sujet du coût des Monarchies européennes.
Si le budget des Pays-Bas fournit de nombreuses informations au sujet de l’affectation et de la nature des ressources allouées à la Maison du Roi, il faut néanmoins constater que les informations au sujet de l’utilisation par la Maison du Roi de ces ressources sont très parcimonieuses si l’on compare par exemple à la Monarchie Suédoise."
("Altogether, the Netherlands Civil List is said to be one of the highest in the European Monarchies. To note however, due to the discretion of most monarchies, it is very difficult to have precise data and comparability about the cost of European monarchies.
While the Dutch budget provides a lot of information about the allocation and the nature of resources allocated to the House of The King, it should nevertheless be noted that the information about the use by said House of these resources are very sparse if we compare for example to the Swedish monarchy.")
-> This is true: the King practically gets a lump sum and it is up to him to spend it, comptrolled by the State Auditor, conforming his Constitutional right to organize his own House.
Nicely done, Your Royal Highnesses. Nicely done.
