Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels today and tomorrow will take time out from discussing controversial international issues to discuss controversial issues closer to home: MEPs' pay and funding of pan-European political parties.
The issue of MEPs' pay has seen European Parliament and member states at loggerheads with one another for several months.
The reform of the statute, pushed by member states, would see the system behind salaries for MEPs made much more transparent.
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