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		<title>Who is taking our money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any euro-twitchers will know about the &#8216;Galvin Report&#8217; &#8211; the audit of how some of our honourable Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) spend the 200,000 euros a year they are given ostensibly to pay for assistants. The report, which we are not allowed to see, found all sorts of ingenious ways used by our MEPs to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any euro-twitchers will know about the &#8216;Galvin Report&#8217; &#8211; the audit of how some of our honourable Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) spend the 200,000 euros a year they are given ostensibly to pay for assistants. The report, which we are not allowed to see, found all sorts of ingenious ways used by our MEPs to pop a lot of this money into their own pockets. For legal reasons, we are not allowed to publish the names of the MEPs whose assistants&#8217; payments Robert Galvin studied. However, one Brussels insider claims to have seen the list. We don&#8217;t know if the names are correct, but anyway here they are. Enjoy.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.europa-transparent.eu/europatransparent/2008/06/halbherzige-erm.html">www.europa-transparent.eu/europatransparent/2008/06/halbherzige-erm.html</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Or you could just contact Robert Galvin directly and ask him which MEPs had their hands in the till. His email address is:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="mailto:robert.galvin@europarl.europa.eu">robert.galvin@europarl.europa.eu</a></span></p>
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