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Buzek's working group is scheduled to meet for the last time on Tuesday (Photo: snorski)

Proposed rules for MEPs' second jobs seen as lax

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

Proposed rules to ensure that MEPs disclose how much they earn from second jobs make little distinction between high and low earners, and also place MEPs from newer member states at a disadvantage

This is according to the latest text to be discussed by members of a ten-man working group on Tuesday afternoon (28 June), set up by European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek in the wake of the recent Sunday Times cash-for-amendments scandal.

The meeting is likely to be the last before...

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Buzek's working group is scheduled to meet for the last time on Tuesday (Photo: snorski)

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