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MEP Corruption, 2nd resignation

  • 21-03-2011 8:27pm
    #1
    RDM_83 again
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    two MEP's have resigned so far for taking cash for lobbying and being filmed by the sunday times

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12806955

    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/austria-parliament.960

    video of the stings

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b28m8D19wc

    seems like its across the EU party lines "Mr Strasser, a former Austrian interior minister, is in the centre-right European People's Party, while the other two are in the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group."-bbc

    personally this area really needs to be stamped out by the EU as it makes the institution as a whole look bad (Labour MEP was saying similar on the radio-her name escapes me as i write this though) and with a salary of around 90,000 they can't plead the poor mouth (and this is standard salary so Romanian earning same as Austrian unlike previously)


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  • #2
    Scofflaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    Nice to see there's still good investigatory reporting going on, even if it is over the water!

    cordially,
    Scofflaw


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