Nico Semsrott (Greens/EFA), a German MEP, said he felt he was “overpaid” as an MEP and called on his social network followers to come up with “good ideas” for spending some of his budget—within the limits of Parliament’s rules on spending.
On Monday 31 May, he announced that he had used €7,354 from the envelope provided to each MEP by his political group (Budget item 400) to have 1,800 boxes of sanitary products made.
The initiative, called “Tamponboxen”, contributes to...