The European Parliament has published its report on its budgetary and financial management during financial year 2008. It outlines the financial situation and the events which have had a significant influence on activities during the year (in parts I and II)and gives a synthetic account of the achievement of the objectivesfor the year (in part III). Source: European Parliament: Report on budgetary...

A new report from Taxpayers’ Alliance shows that Members of the European Parliament can make almost 1.2 million pounds from a single five-year term by claiming various types of parliamentary allowances, reported the Sunday Times. The TPA has also obtained a copy of a report by the Parliament’s Head of Internal Audit, Robert Galvin, revealing widespread misuse of MEPs’ allowance.

From those wonderful chaps over at the taxpayers alliance comes a shocking report that has been held in secret. New research for the TaxPayers' Alliance and The Great European Rip-Off reveals that MEPs stand to get a 47% increase in their take home pay this year. Through a combination of increasing pay levels, a new lower tax rate for all EU officials and the plunging value of the Pound to th...

Oh, you can just imagine them chortling away in the TaxPayers’ Alliance producing the above video about the Common Agricultural Policy. It contains a heady mix of fact and prejudice and there’s even a report to go with it. The ’stats’ in the TaxPayers’ Alliance report are correct in as far as they go in

The Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament (AFCO) voted Monday 9 March 2009 on three reports we have written about in earlier blog posts, namely the Dehaene report on institutional balance, the Leinen report on the EP’s new role implementing the Lisbon Treaty and the Brok report on relations between the European Parliament and the national parliaments. Fortunately at ...

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.

Download the full report (PDF). New research from the TaxPayers' Alliance reveals the true cost of taxes on holidays abroad. With hard-working people saving all year round for a well-deserved break, few of us are aware of just how much...

AFCO, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, discusses a draft report by Elmar Brok on Monday evening 9 March 2009. The draft Report on the development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon, dated 26 January 2009, is available here: The procedure to follow for this own-initiative report is 2008/2120(INI). R...

The Taxpayers Alliance has completed its report into the Barnett Formula with some damning conclusions.  Of course, the contents of this report are nothing new - we’ve been telling people for years how much the Barnett Formula is costing the English taxpayer! THE BARNETT FORMULA HAS COST TAXPAYERS £200 BILLION The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) presents a new

The Commission’s Annual General Report is clearly set out at treaty level: both the obligation to publish for the Commission and the task to discuss for the European Parliament. But looking for the European Parliament’s follow-up makes me wonder if my search techniques are sub-standard or if the EP does not care about its obligation. Regardless, for others the Annual General Report is ...