Huge salaries and lavish expenses are allowing Members of the European Parliament to live like ‘latter-day Roman senators’, a report warned yesterday.
The shocking study found that cosseted MEPs now have incomes up to 20 times higher than the people they represent.
While millions of families across Europe have had their incomes squeezed, most MEPs have enjoyed large increases in their salaries – while continuing to vote through ever-higher budgets for the EU.
Overigens zijn wij van mening dat Nederland, een wereldland in plaats van een Europees wingewest, zo snel mogelijk de EU moet verlaten…