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26-09-2018, 06:01 PM
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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.
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26-09-2018, 06:05 PM
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The EU is awash with other people's cash, so why should they care how much is fiddled away, just one of the many, many reasons why we need to get the hell out of there pronto...
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26-09-2018, 06:10 PM
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Hi

It is not just the MEPs it is the Civil Servants as well.

When I was working I suggest that rather than swan off to Brussels on a Friday we could do most of it by video conferencing.

I was firmly put in my place.
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26-09-2018, 06:47 PM
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What exactly did you want to do by video conference?
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26-09-2018, 06:52 PM
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The same as you do sat down having a conference you confer !
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26-09-2018, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Purwell ->
What exactly did you want to do by video conference?
Hi

Discuss technical things, just as easy to do by video conference.

Much cheaper than an overnight stay in London, Eurostar there and back, and train back to Shropshire, all paid for by the taxpayer.

Same effect could have been achieved at a tenth of the cost to the taxpayer.
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26-09-2018, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by itsme ->
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.
Good luck with that.
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26-09-2018, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy ->
The same as you do sat down having a conference you confer !
Could you write that in English please?
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26-09-2018, 08:15 PM
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I think they all get together just to have a mass debate
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26-09-2018, 08:18 PM
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I think the penny has dropped for the OP.
 
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