In a letter to European Parliament President David Sassoli on Friday 27 March, the two chairs of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, Ryszard Legutko and Raffaele Fitto, called for the use of MEPs’ unused daily allowances for the purchase of medical equipment to help health systems fight the coronavirus.
“We request the transfer of daily allowance funds that have already and will further remain unallocated as a result of telework and changes to the Parliamentary...