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| Where'd they all go? Now we know... |
BRUSSELS –
According To Transparency International, 53% of all Eurodeputies (eurodiputados in Spanish; the UK media
call them EMPs, I believe) have jobs other than that for which they were
elected. The fact was extracted from the statement of interests they are
obliged to present to the European Parliament. The NGO calculates that these
external jobs mean some €18,000,000 per year, all told, though Transparency
International admits it is a difficult figure to validate, given that there are
likely to be multiple errors in the EMPs statements.
