This is not right
Although a fervent European, I have read today in the Times that the General European Court (a subsidiary of the ECJ) has backed the fact that MEP's do not have to prove, by receipts etc. their spending of some 4,400 euros per month expenses.
It concluded that an obligation to publish spending records would undermine MEPs’ privacy, concluding that campaigners had failed to prove publishing information was “appropriate and proportional”.
This obviously smacks of the same problem the UK had with our own MP's and leaves the EU open to ridicule by those who would wish to use it as proof of mismanagement of European tax payers funds.
When working I was always required to present proof of expenditure related to my work, and if I didn't the claim was not paid.
This in my view is, like the UK, a system failure through which, like UK MP's, MEP's would wriggle.
I shall most certainly be contacting my MEP over this matter and after checking the facts I hope you all do the same.