The former Conservative chief whip in the European Parliament is being expelled from the party after he was ordered to pay back expenses of £500,000.

THE Maltese are ten times more influential at the heart of the Europe Union than the British, a Scottish MEP has claimed.

The BBC reports that David Cameron's attempts to reform the way that Conservative MEPs. An unsigned memo written by a Conservative MEP is a "direct breach of the rules of the European Parliament" and likely to bring a PR "defeat".The document suggests that an attempt by Mr Cameron to merge the European and Westminster expenses system "threatens the worst of both worlds". It describes the proposal ...

Open Europe has today published a comparison between the cost of the European Parliament and the cost of the UK Parliament. On his Guardian blog, Michael White cites Open Europe’s finding that the European Parliament costs taxpayers £1.8 million for each MEP per year.

Establishing a new conservative, anti-Lisbon and anti-federalist group in the European Parliament will not weaken the European People's Party, Geoffrey Van Orden, a leading Conservative MEP told EurActiv in a telephone interview.

Via The Sunday Times: One of Britain’s least active MEPs has been receiving more than £40,000 a year for office expenses despite having no office in his constituency. David Sumberg, a Conservative MEP for the North West of England, has already declared he pays £54,000 a year for secretarial support from his wife. Since the current European parliament

Establishing a new conservative, anti-Lisbon and anti-federalist group in the European Parliament will not weaken the European People's Party, Geoffrey Van Orden, a leading Conservative MEP, told EurActiv in a telephone interview.

Tom Wise the former MEP sent to prison for stealing expenses was given the 'all clear' in a cover up by the European Parliament's authorities before investigators called in the police.

A new Conservative MEP representing the West Midlands will start work at the European Parliament next week.

A SENIOR MEP has been expelled from the Conservative Party after a row over its controversial new alliance in the European Parliament.