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Transparency is more important than ever. Be transparent about what things cost and be ready to justify the expense: that must be the mantra for all those looking after the...

Making room for a new president of the Parliament, Renovation works are in full swing at the top of the European Parliament's Paul Henri Spaak building to prepare a new...

Staff move between the groups and secretariat; Parliament's Secretariat accused of seeking to delay report A dispute among MEPs over how the European Parliament spends its...

The leadership of the European Parliament is seeking to increase by 8.6% the allowance that MEPs are paid to employ office assistants. The increase is more than double the...

Rankings compiled by Italian MEP highlight bad record of his compatiots. In the run-up to the European Parliament elections, Marco Cappato, an Italian Liberal MEP, has rated...

David Cameron's decision to leave the EPP-ED group to form a new party will not help the Conservatives shape European politics. The declaration last week by the UK...

MEPs will soon be able to discover for themselves just how revealing bodyscanners are. Members of the European Parliament worked themselves into a lather of indignation in...

More than its own television station is required for the European Parliament to become transparent. This week saw the launch of EuroparlTV, a web-based television channel...

MEPs who employ members of their families will be able to continue doing so for the next term of the European Parliament, following a decision of 9 July. This is one...

The name's Dahl, Hanne Dahl. Jens-Peter Bonde, the Danish Eurosceptic MEP, left the Parliament in May after 29 years service. In an uncharacteristic moment of wit, the...

A little suggestion for the pest-ridden Parliament. The Liberal ALDE group's exhortations to cut down on the amount of paper in the European Parliament seem to be falling on...

Paul van Buitenen, the Dutch whistleblower MEP, has given the EU's anti-fraud office what he claims is evidence of abuse of allowances by two MEPs. He is asking for a formal...

Simon Taylor sheds some light on the darker corners of MEPs' allowances and considers reforms to the employment of parliamentary assistants. There may be a bright side to...

The European Parliament's administration has performed a major U-turn on monitoring MEPs' expenses, Paul van Buitenen, the Dutch Green MEP and former Commission...

The European Parliament has been doing its best over the last seven days to damp down reaction to reports – carried in this newspaper among others – of a critical...

MEPs have ignored requirements to provide documentary justification for the allowances that they claim for paying their office assistants. The European Court of Auditors has...

For some in the European Parliament, Klaus Welle is the “prince of darkness”, for others he is “the most talented political strategist I have ever come across”....

The hardline nationalist group of Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty (ITS) MEPs, which includes the Front National of France and the Flemish separatist Vlaams Belang, has...

European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering has formally reprimanded Polish MEP Maciej Giertych for publishing an anti-Semitic pamphlet. Pöttering said...

German centre-right MEP Hans-Gert Pöttering has pledged to serve all members of the European Parliament after being elected as president on 16 January. Pöttering...