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MEPs Pay Rise

  • 20-02-2012 1:23am
    #1
    rumour
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    Not the most reliable of sources I acknowledge but came across this in london last week and was taken aback to say the least.

    Apparently MEP's have voted themselves a payrise of between 1.9% - 3%.

    Can anybody shed any light on this as its not reported anywhere else.


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  • #2
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,832 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    I can't find any reference to a pay rise in any of the documentation of the EP session in question (not that I have taken the time to search exhaustively).

    This resolution is the only one I can see pertaining to budgetary matters, and it doesn't mention it.

    It does mention that Parliament believes "that the institutions, in the context of continued challenging economic circumstances, should freeze their administrative budgets", recalls "the significant savings which were achieved in the 2012 budget thanks to structural changes and reorganisation", and calls for "a freeze on budget lines related to all travel in 2013 and no indexation of any of the Members’ individual allowances until the end of the legislature".


  • #3
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    I'm sure this story must in fact have something to do with the increase of the EU staff salary bill by 1.7%.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17121490

    While the amount in question, an increase of 1.7%, is not going to cripple the EU taxpayer, it might be said that it is another example of the European Union failing to endear itself to European taxpayers who have a perception (real or imagined) that the European Union is removed from the real world.

    I mean it is a little hard for some people to swallow that the EU Commission should be so forthright in urging austerity within the Union on one hand, and yet act in favour of a payrise for EU public servants on the other hand.

    This increase in salary was not inevitable. The Commission, when requested, could have moved to reduce (or maintain steady) the salary bill by way of the Exception Clause. Article 10 of the XI Annex to the EU Staff Regulations.

    This reads:
    http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/docs/toc100_en.pdf
    If there is a serious and sudden deterioration in the economic and social situation within the Community, assessed in the light of objective data supplied for this purpose by the Commission, the latter shall submit appropriate proposals on which the Council shall act in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 283 of the EC Treaty.

    Also of relevance (and for which it is probably not worth starting a new thread) is the fact that the UK Government have declined from voting in favour of discharging the 2010 EU Budget in light of a failure to reduce errors or represent with adequate clarity EU transactions. However, this is going to be more of a symbolic than a meaningful protest.


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