EUROCRATS in Brussels have secured themselves a merry Christmas with pay rises ensuring that commissioners and MEPs now pocket almost £450 a month more.
Bild in Germany, reporting the pay spikes today, said: “A nice Christmas surprise for the nearly 38,000 EU employees!
“Their salaries and pensions increase by 1.5 per cent retroactively on July 1. EU commissioners and MEPs also benefit from this. There are up to almost €500 more per month for them.”
Eurostat, the statistics office of the bloc, base the raises on the cost of living in Belgium and Luxembourg.
The most basic salaries of EU civil servants rise from €2,830 to €2,872 in the lowest grade and from €19,588 to €19,882 per month in the highest. Full story...
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Bild in Germany, reporting the pay spikes today, said: “A nice Christmas surprise for the nearly 38,000 EU employees!
“Their salaries and pensions increase by 1.5 per cent retroactively on July 1. EU commissioners and MEPs also benefit from this. There are up to almost €500 more per month for them.”
Eurostat, the statistics office of the bloc, base the raises on the cost of living in Belgium and Luxembourg.
The most basic salaries of EU civil servants rise from €2,830 to €2,872 in the lowest grade and from €19,588 to €19,882 per month in the highest. Full story...
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