MEPS PUT EXPENSES HOUSE IN ORDER AFTER EMBARRASSING REVELATIONS
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's administrative bureau has tightened up rules on the employment of MEPs assistants after a probe revealed a series of misdemeanours. This brought the resignation of MEP Giles Chichester as leader of UK Conservative MEPs after it was revealed he paid staff allowances to a firm founded by his father. In future, payments to assistants in their home countries will be handled by qualified agents. Only 25% of these funds can henceforth pay for research studies or other advisory work. Also, no new contracts may be concluded ...
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