The row over rent for the Strasbourg EU parliament is escalating with MEPs starting emergency investigations and the city of Strasbourg denying allegations that it has been pocketing money, and threatening to take the worst "slanderers" to court.
MEPs on Wednesday (26 April) were supposed to sign off the parliament's budget for 2004 but the debate was hijacked by the recent rent allegations.
"We certainly could have debated the budget at a better moment," Finnish conservative MEP ...
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