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MEPs help to make the EU 0.0014286% more transparent

17 September 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, European Union

Compared to the EU’s 2011 budget of around 140 billion Euros, 2 million Euros (that’s 0.0014286% of 140 billion Euros) doesn’t sound like much.  However, a fight – which is expected to come to a head this week – between the European Parliament and the European Commission over this relatively small sum of money may […]

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Brussels waters down Euro-Parliament Code of Conduct

6 September 2012 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Politics and government

In the European Parliament the issue of codes of conduct is a hot topic at the moment. As one Member of the European Parliament recently stated on facebook, “What my employment was before I was elected, is not of the European Parliament or your business.”  Unfortunately, it seems that some members of the European Parliament (MEPs) […]

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