April 15, 2014
The Times today uses the news that Nigel Farage is to be investigated by the EU’s anti-fraud office OLAF, following a complaint from an ex-Ukip official that £60,000 of EU allowances paid into his personal bank account have gone “missing”, …
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June 25, 2013
Italian MEP Renato Baldassarre has responded to the posting of the video in which he’s seen pushing and slapping a Dutch journalist (or at least the journalist’s microphone) after being caught on camera allegedly signing in for a day’s work, and then s…
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March 4, 2011
Why doesn’t this strike us as a surprise? MEPs have asked for more of taxpayers’ cash, although this time the money will not end up directly in their pockets. The European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets voted yesterday to increase MEPs’ monthly staf…
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