European Parliament Exposed

[Andres]

Well, a lot depends how you look at the issue.

If you're trying to say MEPs are behaving irresponsibly and we should apply pressure on them to stop that, I agree fully.

If you're trying to say: OMG, this is outrageous, dismantle EU this instant!!! - then we don't agree.

And, of course, there's the other issue that national parliaments function pretty much on the same principle...

The basic ideas behidn the EU are ok, it doesn't need to be dismantled. But the excesses need to stop asap. The longer it takes before you do anything about it, the worse it will get and the more difficult/impossible it'll get to do something about it in a more or less civilised way.

Pressure to stop it? It's not enough to just stop it. The excesses that already happened, shouldn't go unpunished. Each and every member of Parliament who asked money for expenses, should send in justifications. No justifications, then they need to pay back every euro they ever received + a fine of 10 times that amount. Or 1.000 times, if that's what's needed to put them into extreme poverty.

If you shamelessly grab money like that in an age where people in the EU have lost everything and live in poverty, depending on humanitarian aid to survive, then no punishment can be harsh enough for you. The people who cannot justify their behaviour need to be put into a position that they need humanitarian aid to survive as well. They need to be left to rot for a few years, to get the message accross.

And yes, national and local politicians do the same. But that's not exactly a justification for the European money grabbers, now is it? That only means that we'll need to take action in our own countries as well.