How Much Do EU Politicians Actually Make?

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You won’t believe how much your elected EU officials are raking in—and the perks are even crazier! From sky-high salaries to jaw-dropping travel allowances, it’s no wonder trust in the system is crumbling. Get ready to uncover the shocking benefits MEPs enjoy, while transparency issues raise serious red flags!

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The salary itself is OK, but not all the other tax cuts and other benefits. For a poorer country 125k sounds a lot of course, but for richer countries you have to pay this money. Corruption would be crazy otherwise.

Joey-ctbm
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I agree with your stance. Transparency needs to be there before EU citizens lose trust...

adi
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And the EU institutions pay their interns pennies to survive in Strasbourg and Bruxelles, feeding the desperate interns with the "prestige" of the job at their premises.

backk
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Remeber people, if we work long and hard one day, even we can be massive hypocrites

Cesnq
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I really don't think the salaries are too high. But the enforcement and transparency should be reconsidered

ECTCalvin
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And people look at me weird when I say I want to be in EU parliament for years

int
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Though I dont like the lack of transparency and loopholes, my country's MPs make €112, 000. The US congress makes $174, 000. Both amounts are minus expenses, office fees, staff, pension and travel too. So this doesn't seem that high.

Eoin-B
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125 k/year for a MEP is not too much. It needs to be high enough to provide a solid base so as not to be easily attracted by bribes.

MedEwok
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Talk about the fact that that the EU also doesn't give out permanent contracts and only hires interns for the most part please! It's a topic that has to be put out there as well.

nespppp
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There is no amount of money to protect from corruption. They'll always want more.

prolarka
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I bet that politicians will all agree for once if a law to lower MEPs salary reaches the parliament 😂

LUCAILPRO
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This is a fundamental problem of bureaucracies - every bureaucracy will vote more perks and privileges for itself. Once they entrench themselves, it's very hard to reverse that course.

mihailrangelov
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MEPs dont care about that yearly 200K chip change. Big money is paid by corporations.

tibsyy
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I loved the video and completely agree with rhe conclusion.
It's time to reform! 🇪🇺❤

VillaDish
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Transparency is important, yes. But a maximum of 150k euro a year, is basically a salary for a programmer in USA or a middle management person in Switzerland. I see it justified for such an important position. it is Just my opinion, pls do not attack me.

seg
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€40M/yr... Total EU budget is €150B/yr-ish. We're talking about 0.02% of the budget, give or take. Seriously? Are we sure this is what we need to focus on?

youtubeusrname
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Oh wow, a bunch of useless rich people make an absurd amount of money, surely this hasn’t happened for ages?

crocodile
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Can you make a video about eu lobbysm? Because after washington, bruessls is the headquater of lobbysts.

grafity
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THIS IS RIDICULOUS, how the hell is this justified

kostas
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For me as an America the most concerning issue is the conflict of interest stuff with work for companies while ruling over them. Having well compensated board members of a government I don't mind. They are equivalent to CEO's and Board members of private institutions who get paid well so no real issue there. The perks are part of the pay package and you just have to realize they get "paid" twice their base salary but it is probably in line with the private sector equivalent.

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