Go to the Content Friday, 19 March 2010
Your search for "Parliament's Administration" produced 39 items.
| 1. Is the Parliament too politicised? | March 18, 2010 |
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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... | |
| 2. MEPs want 8.6% increase in allowances for assistants | January 7, 2010 |
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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... |
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| 3. Italian MEPs have poorest Parliament attendance | April 23, 2009 |
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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... | |
| 4. Quitting the centre-right will weaken the UK Conservatives | March 19, 2009 |
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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... | |
| 5. Transparent MEPs | November 20, 2008 |
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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... |
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| 6. MEPs need clean accounts to win trust | September 18, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 7. Family members to stay on MEPs' staff | July 17, 2008 |
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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... |
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| 8. A missed opportunity to take Bond(e)'s calls... | May 29, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 9. Less paper, fewer mites? | May 8, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 10. MEPs fail to build trust, again | April 17, 2008 |
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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... |
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| 11. Two MEPs named in expenses fraud case | April 17, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 12. Parliament 'forced into crack-down' on expenses | March 6, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 13. MEPs must first put their own house in order | February 28, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 14. MEPs' allowances | November 15, 2007 |
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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... | |
| 15. Prince of darkness | May 3, 2007 |
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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”.... | |
| 16. MEPs fight over Latin America | April 26, 2007 |
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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... | |
| 17. Polish MEP rebuked for anti-Semitism | March 15, 2007 |
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European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering has formally reprimanded Polish MEP Maciej Giertych for publishing an anti-Semitic pamphlet. Pöttering said... | |
| 18. Pöttering to work for a ‘strong EU' | January 18, 2007 |
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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... | |
| 19. Far-right MEPs struggle to form political group | November 2, 2006 |
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Negotiations hit problems after Italian separatists express reluctance to join new formation Attempts by far-right parties in the European Parliament to form a new political... | |
| 20. Report says city acted lawfully | July 20, 2006 |
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An MEP investigating excess rent paid by the European Parliament to the city of Strasbourg is recommending that the assembly should go ahead and buy the two buildings at the... | |
