The European Parliament is to pay out a record amount of £174 million for new buildings in Brussels at a time of austerity and economic recession elsewhere in Europe.
Revelations over the rental and purchase of new buildings in the European Union quarter of the Belgian capital come ahead of elections to the assembly next year and risk a backlash against high-spending MEPs.
The extra office space is to be purchased and rented for growing numbers of parliamentary assistants even though the number of MEPs will shrink from 766 to 751 after EU elections in May 2014.
"This is an outrageous waste of taxpayers' money when the EU is demanding punishing cuts from ordinary households and national governments," said Paul Nuttall the deputy leader of Ukip.
"As the profligate EU wants to expand its empire or project it continues to hire more Eurocrats and increase the size and expense of its Towers of Babel." Full story...
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Revelations over the rental and purchase of new buildings in the European Union quarter of the Belgian capital come ahead of elections to the assembly next year and risk a backlash against high-spending MEPs.
The extra office space is to be purchased and rented for growing numbers of parliamentary assistants even though the number of MEPs will shrink from 766 to 751 after EU elections in May 2014.
"This is an outrageous waste of taxpayers' money when the EU is demanding punishing cuts from ordinary households and national governments," said Paul Nuttall the deputy leader of Ukip.
"As the profligate EU wants to expand its empire or project it continues to hire more Eurocrats and increase the size and expense of its Towers of Babel." Full story...
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