Friday, March 11, 2011

Sign, fleeing and receiving diets

If it were a movie, would borrow the title of a Woody Allen comedy, 'Take the Money and Run. " MEP for the West Midlands, Nikki Sinclaire, denounces in the News of the World the custom of many MEPs, signing and flee to accept payment. In an investigation conducted by the British daily routine reveals some Friday in Brussels and Strasbourg.

MPs arrive, chips and within half an hour is planted at the airport to catch a flight. For example, Jolanta Hibner he rolled his suitcase in parliament shortly before eight o'clock in the morning of January 21 and was photographed at the Brussels airport 22 minutes later, ready to return to his native Poland.

British MEPs Peter Skinner and Robert Sturdy registered their entry into Brussels and arrived in time to catch the Eurostar from 8:29 am to arrive two hours later at London's St. Pancras station. Sinclair has posted the photos to denounce this practice, she said, corrupt and to raise awareness on what they invest the money the British taxpayer.

But EU rules do not include it as illegal, says the spokesman for another of their Lordships, the Portuguese Figuereido The photos in question were taken on Friday, January 21, when parliament was closed, the camera is open 134 days a year and none falls on a Friday. Sinclaire states: "An MEP can charge their diet only when attending official meetings.

And there was no such on Friday 21." Parliamentarians have a salary of 94,200 per year not including allowances. The average salary of an MEP is 6,200 euros a month, plus allowances, travel expenses and other extras. If each of your Lordships additional fiche 37 Friday, each would win a whopping 11,107 euros a year.

The newspaper announced that before seven in the morning and had a queue of members willing to sign. Before ten more than a third, 54, of parliamentarians arrived with bags and suitcases. At least 25 left the parliament soon after and were seen at the airport or the Eurostar station. "Many people do not earn much money in a week, but some MEPs earn it in less than an hour, taxpayers should know how their money is spent," said Sinclair, MEP quite anti-European that believes that Britain should leave the EU and the country should only be ruled by Westminster.

CiudadanoPrecisamente 235 euros for one of the MEPs 'hunted' by Sinclair, the Spanish Socialist Gardiazabal Eider, granddaughter of former president Ramon Rubial PSOE, explained a few months ago in a chat on 'The World' that cost each EU citizen 235 EU per year. "The truth is that there is a high figure, especially when you consider how many things we get financed with that money," he added then.

In the same digital meeting, explained that his motivation to go on European lists of the PSOE was explained by a "matter of values, commitment to ideas of absolute dedication 24 hours a day and of course be voted by the citizens and citizens. "

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