EP transparency 'would require 40-75 new staff'

The European Parliament's own wording of an adopted text on its budget is hampering its expressed wish for greater transparency of a €4,299 monthly allowance which each MEP receives to cover office costs.

The EP secretariat says that additional transparency would require hiring between 40 and 75 new staff members, something which MEPs have said they do not want to pay for.

In April, the plenary session of the EP signed off on its own 2013 budget, a process known as the discharge. ...