text: Cost of NATO's New Brussels HQ – A Paltry $1.4 Bn
  That's three times the budget originally approved for the project
  NATO's new-found solution: keep cost overruns from now on secret
  The solution to NATO's self-imposed image problem was simple: the people responsible for managing the affairs of a military alliance involving 28 countries, 3.5 million combatants and 5,000 nuclear weapons decided, as asked by the staff of its Secretary General, to deal with the matter "confidentially." In other words, the cost overruns and delays in construction are being deliberately concealed from the public in the hope that NATO's executives will not appear incompetent.