Video footage of MEPs slapping and pushing a journalist filming them while they claim a £258 daily allowance after arriving arrived at work in the evening has sparked new calls for reform to the EU assembly.
The European Parliament pays the "subsistence allowance", which is paid without any proof of expenditure, when MEPs sign an attendance register in Brussels.
The payment is known as the "sign in and slope off" allowance and is notorious for allowing MEPs to pocket the allowance without staying in the EU assembly, or even Brussels, to do any work.
In a repeat of a past incident five years ago, Tom Staal, a Dutch journalist, filmed two MEPs arriving during the late afternoon to claim the allowance after the working day has ended.
He is slapped and pushed by two MEPs, Miroslav Ransdorf, a far-left Czech deputy and Raffaele Baldassarre, form the Italian centre-right, after confronting them about cashing in without having worked. Full story...
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The European Parliament pays the "subsistence allowance", which is paid without any proof of expenditure, when MEPs sign an attendance register in Brussels.
The payment is known as the "sign in and slope off" allowance and is notorious for allowing MEPs to pocket the allowance without staying in the EU assembly, or even Brussels, to do any work.
In a repeat of a past incident five years ago, Tom Staal, a Dutch journalist, filmed two MEPs arriving during the late afternoon to claim the allowance after the working day has ended.
He is slapped and pushed by two MEPs, Miroslav Ransdorf, a far-left Czech deputy and Raffaele Baldassarre, form the Italian centre-right, after confronting them about cashing in without having worked. Full story...
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