MEPs – Jon Worth's Euroblog

17.03.2015 EU Politics

Polish MEPs and their personal job creation schemes – updated for 2015 and the new EP term

In January 2013 I stumbled upon Polish MEPs employing a lot of assistants. One employed 19 people, and two employed 17 each back then. The blog entry about that is here, and it was even covered by Polish newspaper Gazeta

10.01.2013 EU Politics

Polish MEPs and their personal job creation schemes – 1 MEP employs 19, 2 each employ 17

Jeżeli trafiłeś na ten blog po przeczytaniu wcześniej artykułu w Gazecie Wyborczej, zwróć proszę uwagę na dalsze wyjaśnienia i pytania w komentarzach. Natknąłem się na te informacje przez przypadek i nie wiem jak odnoszą się one do innych państw członkowskich

07.08.2011 EU Politics

LabourList | Better selection and election systems would give us better MEPs

“This week I was in the audience at a Young Fabians* event about Britain and the EU with Mary Honeyball MEP as the speaker. The event was part of one of the Young Fabians Policy Commissions, with the aim of

07.06.2011 EU Politics / UK Politics

MEPs should stop complaining that they are anonymous – they are responsible

OK, he’s a MP rather than a MEP now, but a piece by Jonathan Evans for Public Service Europe annoys me. There are some valid points in the piece on the way the EP and Westminster work, but this is

21.05.2011 EU Politics / Technology

How MEPs should organise their web comms and social networking

I was a speaker yesterday at the Nordic-Baltic Youth Forum 2011 in Narva, Estonia. The slides from my presentation are here, but this post is about an issue that was on my mind all day – how Members of the European