Brussels, 25/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - A report by the European Parliament's internal auditor, presented last week, points to irregularities in the system for payment of MEPs' assistants. The report looks at the €16,000 allocated each month to each of the 784 MEPs for paying their assistants and analyses a sample of 167 payments and their supporting documents from 2004 and 2005.
According to a Parliament press release, the report does not reveal any cases of individual fraud. It does,...