Last year about £400 million (€450 million) was spent on MEP’s salaries, travel and office costs.
”Now a lawyer for the EUSSR has warned releasing details of how the public money used by eurocrats would put “big pressure” on them.
The lawyer said: “If everything was visible it would impose a big pressure on MEPs and they wouldn’t be able to do their job properly.”
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Her comments come as part of a furious battle between EU officials and journalists after the bloc refused to publish details of their expenses in 2015.
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Journalists claimed MEP’s expenses numbered in the millions and were kept in paper format in 48 cabinets which were filled “from ceiling to floor.”.
The lawyer said “The filing system is what it is” adding that there were an estimated 900,000 individual pieces of paper for MEPs’ travel expenses between 2011 and 2015.
The EU Parliament proclaimed it had internal controls in place to recover funds that were incorrectly spent.
Speaking to POLITICO, Anuška Delić, a journalist who brought the case, said: “I can’t get over the shock of hearing this.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/869508/meps-expenses-EU-parliament-court-brexit
AllSetForBrexit – > Wilsn
There’s not much in the way of accountability in the E”U” today as it is and Drunker would just die to have all Europe run from a secret unelected commission.
PleasantPeasant – > Bumpy Grollix
The pigs have been in the farmhouse for a long long while. They’ve made good and sure that it will take more than words to remove them.
Think Orwell, think Napoleon and his ‘mates’.
Time to get the book off the shelf again.
ukgovernmentwatch 
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