COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Transparency

European Parliament under no requirement to shed light on utilisation of allowances awarded to MEPs, says General Court

Brussels, 25/09/2018 (Agence Europe)

The General Court of the EU has upheld the European Parliament's refusal to give access to 4 million documents on the daily allowances, travel allowances and parliamentary assistance allowances of MEPs, in a judgment returned on Tuesday 25 September (cases T-639 to T-666/15).

In 2015, several journalists and journalist associations asked the European Parliament for access to the above-mentioned documents over the period between June 2011 and July 2015 inclusive, which was refused.

In its...