Each member of the European Parliament gets €4,342 per month, mainly to fund an office in his or her own country, but the offices of 249 MEPs are nowhere to be found, according to a report by Investigative Reporting Denmark published on Wednesday 31 May and relayed by the organisation Transparency International, amongst others.
So far, 133 of the 748 current MEPs have declared what they pay in office rent, the authors state.
Each MEP receives a General Expenditure Allowance to cover costs...