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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@Joey-ct8bm 10 дней назад

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.

@RexorProxer 10 дней назад

No its not okay. Even in Luxembourg those earning are high. And they get paid that much and are still corrupt.

@youtuber-xghty 10 дней назад

No it's not high, good software engineer make that money for way less responsibility

@1aboPLZ 10 дней назад

@@youtuber-xghty it is one of the best paying branches, and as one to get there is still hard

@markojovanovski3372 10 дней назад

@@youtuber-xghtybro where? In some eastern europe countries a software engineer makes less than 2000€ a month. Even i switzerland i dont think they reach 120k

@prolarka 10 дней назад

It does not prevent corruption, it only makes it more expensive to bribe them. But in the end, they'll always accept additional money.

@adi63 10 дней назад

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

@martinwinther6013 8 дней назад

Why do you think we have these numbers?

@MrRafagigapr 7 дней назад

I love how they get paid from tax money and then get taxed , wtf why? why would any government worker get taxed ? just pay them less and they earn the same money post tax anyway and thousands less of useless government workers can actually do something productive . this is big government in a nutshell , how many people on the world have jobs only due to unnecessary government bureaucracy.

@gergelyritter4412 6 дней назад

@MrRafagigapr A quick and easy to understand reason: Pensions. Pensions can and are only allocated based on the amount of taxes you have paid on income. That's why black people in the black market don't recieve pensions if they manage to sell smth. Also, it takes much less to do the taxes of these people than you think. Much less people work under the government than in the private sector, so the strain put onto ths beurocracy isn't huge.

@Hardcore_Remixer_Alt_Acc 6 дней назад

Rare moments: "Transparency needs to be there before EU citizens lose trust..." The norm: "Screw the transparency to ban the far right."

@ECTCalvin 9 дней назад

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

@Cesnq 10 дней назад

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

@david-gabrielpop5344 10 дней назад

Oh that Oversimplified quote hits hard

@backk2895 9 дней назад

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.

@int1128 9 дней назад

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

@MedEwok 9 дней назад

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.

@viktator4205 9 дней назад

Not only that, but private corporations pay more. Public service should pay well and be at least reasonably attractive if we don't want to lose all competent people to the private sector. Our representatives at the highest level are comparable in responsibility to governing boards, directors and CEOs. I'm not saying they have to be paid exactly as much as those positions, but I find it immensely weird that people get so hung up over the pay of politicians and civil servants, while seemingly being fine with managers and CEOs.

@MedEwok 9 дней назад

@@viktator4205 very well said. It's really silly to get hung up on MEP pay but accept CEO pay as a simple fact of life when some of them can ruin the lives of tens of thousands of people. I live in a region with lots of VW factories and remember the emissions scandal a few years ago, which according to an article I recently read cost VW 33 billion (!) euro of damage and may thus be responsible for the impending closure of factories and loss of tens of thousands of jobs. And the people responsible earned several million Euros a year, making MEP pay peanuts by comparison.

@Hardcore_Remixer_Alt_Acc 6 дней назад

1) We need ultra high payment for the public service. 2) For that we need to raise the taxes. 3) Big businesses are leaving EU. I wonder why. The big corporates from US will always be able to bribe our politicians, buddy. The solution is to reduce the power of the government to make it harder to screw good stuff up. For that the government needs to be the bare minimum to function.

@Eoin-B 10 дней назад

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.

@Jonas-Seiler 9 дней назад

Wtf are you talking about it’s outrageously high, 36k after taxes makes you a wealthy man in fucking Germany

@nespppp 10 дней назад

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.

@harris_lazaridis 4 дня назад

exactly!

@prolarka 10 дней назад

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

@mihailrangelov8343 10 дней назад

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.

@bionicle37 9 дней назад

The only way you can get rid of it is by exiting the union. The countries would be better off in the long run

@mihailrangelov8343 9 дней назад

Not true, just look at how Brexit is unfolding. Hampering trade between countries that are so closely integrated would always be a much bigger problem than an inefficient bureaucracy.

@Jonas-Seiler 9 дней назад

@@bionicle37 yeah of course, because that only happens in the eu parliament and is entirely without precedent anywhere else

@bionicle37 9 дней назад

@mihailrangelov8343 it's possible to maintain strong trade relationships without being part of a union that limits national sovereignty. Countries in the eu surrender control over their monetary policies and face burdensome regulations. By simply removing trade restrictions and tariffs, you can freely trade with any country in Europe without these constraints and without being in any union

@bionicle37 9 дней назад

@@Jonas-Seiler thats why I'm in favor in scaling back national governments as well. But we definitely don't need a government for our government so the eu is completely redundant

@LUCAILPRO530 10 дней назад

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

@zorozyx1347 10 дней назад

🤣

@terminatora1249 9 дней назад

Lol this is why there needs to be a lot of pressure from the public, no matter the political leaning.

@josephhesse2634 8 дней назад

Nahh, their salary are low as fk. Hiw you want someone to no be corrupt when they can earn more in private sector. Politician wage should be in competition with the market. Not predetermine.

@VillaDish 10 дней назад

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

@Insert_generic_username 9 дней назад

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@MegaCooliam 10 дней назад

Good that this is being reported on!

@joshuagenes 10 дней назад

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.

@kostas0352 10 дней назад

THIS IS RIDICULOUS, how the hell is this justified

@JaegerDreadful 10 дней назад

Because they are responsible for decisions that impact millions of people? High responsibility means higher salary. Probably more justified to point your outrage towards billionaires who exploit workers for their own gain, or CEO's that take 100's of millions in bonuses tax free.

@csibesz07 10 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadful One MEP is around 1/705 (0.14%) percent responsible for any decision made... how is that more responsibility than being a CEO? How about these politicians make rules againts worker exploitation by said CEOs?

@sciamachy9838 10 дней назад

@@csibesz07because a CEO’s decisions don’t affect 450 million people. That being said those numbers are really small for an institutions that big, look at any other public administration

@kostas0352 10 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadful dude 60% don't even step on the parliament more than 4 times a month, stop blaming billionaires for everything and blame the useless politicians

@carloandreaguilar5916 10 дней назад

It’s very justified. If you want to avoid corruption, pay people well to disincentivize them being tempted. Look at third world countries where police are paid peanuts, what happens? They become super corrupt. Countries where police are paid well, much less so

@tibsyy895 10 дней назад

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

@seg5820 10 дней назад

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.

@ticklepickle7786 10 дней назад

Yes the salary is ok I think. The rest is dumb.

@8Nifon8 10 дней назад

You're right, however the problem is not the salaries, but the side businesses that they have. I don't mind even if they are getting 1m per year, as long there's no conflict of interest.

@RexorProxer 10 дней назад

The Basic Salary ? No its not okay, they are Corrupt (If you have side Gigs where you own more money then with your main Salary, you have a HUGE conflict of interest, or indirect Corruption) even with this kind of money. The German Idiom "Preach water and drink wine" comes to mind daily when i hear about the EU.

@_o..o_1871 10 дней назад

@@seg5820 Many EU countries still have monthly minimum salaries of 450-800€. We’re also going through plenty of crisis and people can’t afford a decent living. Please tell me how this is justified…

@_o..o_1871 10 дней назад

@@seg5820 also, just because “it is your opinion” it doesn’t mean that we can’t comment that we do not agree with this statement. Cope!

@csibesz07 10 дней назад

150 working days??? WTH They work 3 days a week?

@jonathanwilliams9697 10 дней назад

The Parliament only sits 3 days a week.

@bananenmusli2769 9 дней назад

Then there are neo liberal politicians telling people that they need to work more

@sciamachy9838 9 дней назад

sits 3 days a week but they have commission works that obviously nobody remembers...

@viktator4205 9 дней назад

Parliament is not always in session, but there's a lot of other work to be done in committees and parties, not to mention towards interest groups, civil society and the public.

@maartenvm93 9 дней назад

Some MEPs never show up once elected (Farage), and then it's a great salary. Some work 4 days a week to prepare for the 3 days of meetings while they could earn more in national government, in which case it's not that great a salary.

@youtubeus3rname 9 дней назад

€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?

@JaegerDreadful 9 дней назад

People want to be mad for nothing. They see something, take it at face value and go "WELL I DONT MAKE THAT MUCH MONEY!" while they have no idea how the rest really works.

@Jonas-Seiler 9 дней назад

Yes the lack of transparency and legalized corruption are important issues we should be talking about a lot more.

@danpinho 9 дней назад

MP Family member comment detected 😂

@youtubeus3rname 9 дней назад

@@danpinho I don't even have a European passport. Just thought I'd share my thoughts

@_o..o_1871 10 дней назад

Keep in mind that the monthly minimum salary in some EU countries is still lese than 500-600€.

@_o..o_1871 10 дней назад

People are working very hard to survive while these bureaucrats live without having to worry about anything…totally absurd! 🤮🤮

@zorozyx1347 10 дней назад

Exactly.

@JaegerDreadful 9 дней назад

And? You think some random worker who cleans a building should get 100k salary? For what? They have no responsibilty, it requires no education to do that job and they live in a country where the cost of living is much lower. You can't compare the 2, it's apples and oranges. Meanwhile, there are real problems in this world that you are ignoring right now while focussing on "BUT THEY GET MORE THAN MEEEEE" like a selfish child. Plenty of politicians want to increase wages for workers, but you idiots keep voting for far-right idiots who only care about the rich and say "migrant dangerous!".

@zorozyx1347 9 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadful You think some random worker who cleans a building should get 100k salary? Yes. You're basically saying fuck the poor but you are supposed to be a socially sensitive liberal/leftist. So who is the bad here?

@chrislambaa7586 7 дней назад

Keep in mind that in some EU countries minimum pay any worker can get is 35k euro and on top of this is 10% pension, 6 weeks paid vacation. The median in same country is about 66k euro a year again with 10% pension, 6 weeks paid vacation and often other benefits like free car and more.

@grafity1749 10 дней назад

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

@nostro1940 10 дней назад

*The total cost of the European Parliament is approximately €2.247 billion per year according to its 2023 budget, with the cost of translation and interpretation, and the cost of its buildings in two main locations, being significant extra burdens not faced by national parliaments.*

@JaegerDreadful 9 дней назад

You do realize that's like pennies right? Out of a total of 170 billion in revenue? Please.

@nostro1940 9 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadful What revenue? Taxes isn't revenue, the EU parliament isn't a company it's a public institution and it is supposed to be as efficient as possible. Also its 2.24 billion euros for less than 5000 people (720 Mps and their "secretaries") its not peanuts, its almost half a million euros per person and it takes tens of millions of peoples taxes to pay such absurd salaries and fake costs. if that's pennies I can't wait to hear your description of what's the average salaries in many southern EU countries like Portugal and Greece. Medics and professors receive much less money

@MovieMenno 10 дней назад

classic bureaucrat moment...

@MovieMenno 10 дней назад

but also thank you for making this video I remember in 2014 finding this out and losing a lot of trust in the eu/journalists for not calling this out sadly my trust has not recovered much since

@13caban 10 дней назад

please go on, it is important, we need transparency

@JaegerDreadful 9 дней назад

For what? So the public can be angry because some politician forgot to give the receipt for his lunch? Because that's what is gonna happen, people will be looking for things to be mad about. We don't need to know everything, we the public knew everything and gave their opinion about everything society wouldn't function anymore. When you give your car to a mechanic, do you stand there and watch them the entire time or do you trust them to do their job?

@Hardcore_Remixer_Alt_Acc 6 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadful So you want to keep things secret to maintain the status quo? Yes, for a well functioning democracy, we the public need to know everything or else we become like Russia and China without even knowing it. The 'faaaaa right' is on the rise specifically because rethorics like the one you presented. A society based on secrets falls in those moment the secrets are inevitably blown or when the reality kicks in. One based on truth cannot be shaken by lies. Democracy may be a bad system, but it is the best we've got.

@Motyy 10 дней назад

Maybe I should get politician in the EU 😂

@yousefashmeh1468 10 дней назад

Ooooh how I love Eurpoe! I can't see such a critique happening in the US, not in a thousand years

@ruzicas.5819 10 дней назад

In US people with bad intentions undermining US are not so obvious. We are here too naive and people are jumping on one clickbait video not saying anything that its not happening in the every parliament in the world. And MEPs salaries are so so, not exactly big.

@francoisehembert3243 10 дней назад

the biggest legal robbery.

@tibsyy895 10 дней назад

There are much, much bigger!

@crocodile6097 10 дней назад

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

@JaegerDreadful 10 дней назад

I wouldn't call "Passing bills and making decisions that affect 100's of millions of people" useless. And while getting shit for it no matter what you do as well.

@benchoflemons398 10 дней назад

We should make the government bigger.

@soundscape26 10 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadful Agreed

@ruzicas.5819 10 дней назад

@@JaegerDreadfulAgreed 100%

@santaclaus0815 9 дней назад

Salaries in the private sector are MUCH higher. If we want the most capable people to go into politics, then that is where they should earn the most, not in the private sector. If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys.

@UrbanistPaul 9 дней назад

To be honest, I would prefer that MEPs and thier assistants earn even more (200k+ a year tax-free) but therefore having full transparency and accountability regarding expenses, lobbying as well as restrictions for side-jobs. So I agree on that point. The job is extremely important and should be done the most professional and responsible way while attracting only the best and most trustworthy people. Therefore as compensation the payment should be actually more than just the 100k. Like singaporean bureaucrats, Im laughing my ass off when people get upset just (!) because of such a salary.

@francescahamilton6856 8 дней назад

Absolutely shocking. The British MEPS Neil Kinnock & his wife milked millions over the years, in exchange for very little. Greed is not the word.

@brunogaspar3977 9 дней назад

They don’t pay the cell phone bills, travels, fuel, computers, food, fuel, etc. The 4% who declares expenses are called dumb by the other 96%

@chleba47927 10 дней назад

120 000 €? Fuck me, i am going to candidate to EU parlament.

@jonathanwilliams9697 10 дней назад

Why do you think Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen loved being an MEP so much

@zorozyx1347 9 дней назад

@@jonathanwilliams9697 *Why do you think people love being an MEP so much.

@Hardcore_Remixer_Alt_Acc 6 дней назад

@@jonathanwilliams9697 It's so funny that you found a way to accuse the 'faaaaar right' for the big government introduced by the left.

@thoreveplancke4527 5 дней назад

Dear EU Made Simple, you should send this to the EU so they can change the laws and prevent further abuses. And thanks for the inside in how the EU works.

@mcsroom8930 9 дней назад

Could you make a video about those 4% that did report their expenses, It would be a great way to show all of the people that actually did not abuse the system

@javizama2 9 дней назад

This is absurd. Specially when currently the average european citizen below 40 years is barely able to reach that net salary (just the direct salary). I understand many of those rules came from, but its clear that they are overdone and even more alltogether. And lets not forget that this is similar (proportional to the country) to the national parlaments.

@hewhosays7979 7 дней назад

125k€ for doing absolutely nothing besides ruining uopean countries is insane. Abolish this garbage already

@hjvdd 10 дней назад

This still blows my mind, its insane 😅

@VillaDish 10 дней назад

Yep. This should be talked about more! Transparency is needed to gain the trust of the voter

@hjvdd 10 дней назад

100% @@VillaDish

@francescahamilton6856 8 дней назад

I went to an expensive Bar in Brussels in 2001MEPs drink. I was charged 30 euros for a double whisky. The MEPs were using cards courtesy of the tax payers. All free.

@MrApocallypse 8 дней назад

There is something very wrong with the system. That's for sure.

@arassadeghi3998 9 дней назад

The Lobysm is a great problem, but can someone still explain me why EU parliament still passes Pro-Environment Policies without failing to pass the policies due to lobyism? or is there something I have missunderstood about EU's Pro-Environment Policies?

@myname7937 8 дней назад

companies that make solar panels lobby against nuclear energy so they can sell more solar panels

@nenasiek 9 дней назад

Breaking news: politicians are corrupt! Im so glad they have their high horse to sit on while talking down to the rest of us.

@miguelteixeira9173 7 дней назад

This is why we have huge governments filled with too many parties that they just blab at parliament a looking to dream one day to become an EU MbP. This is outrageous. As citizens what can we do?

@mariuszkozlowski8242 9 дней назад

It’s time for reform to make EU more transparent and stronger. Making it into an actually working Union for its Citizens! And we should have more videos which highlight the topic of lack of transparency in the EU institutions

@hansbornemann9018 9 дней назад

So much flexibility for the polititians abut regulations and bureocracy to the citizens. This seems totally disconnected

@Richard1A2B 9 дней назад

Well done, a great exposure of a subject our national media doesn't touch.

@BenelliMr 9 дней назад

have you ever seen an honest politician?

@humpcs 9 дней назад

If monthly salary is 8000€, and person lives in Bulgaria where is 10% tax flat, and rent cost 400€, then after paying for taxes and rent there is 6800€ left for saving. While if person lives in Dublin, where is 50% tax, and rent cost 1500€, then there is 2500€ left for saving, sounds fair.

@name_it 9 дней назад

That's what I call a ligal robbery.

@docopoper 10 дней назад

100% agree on the conclusion. It's not a problem that they get paid a lot. But side jobs need to be banned, and being sneaky with money should not be rewarded.

@myname7937 8 дней назад

what if they run a RU-vid channel to inform their voters about everything they do?

@docopoper 8 дней назад

@@myname7937 That seems fine as outreach, but they probably shouldn't enable monetisation. Making money from Google is a (probably tiny unless they're very popular) conflict of interest.

@josephmartin1543 8 дней назад

Higher MEP salary must include total Transparency : No Side Jobs of any kind, No Trading in Stocks or Bonds, etc., while in Public Office, every single Euro above salary must have a full Receipt, MEP's cannot Vote on any Issue where they already have Financial or Economic interests, etc.

@ulftnightwolf 10 дней назад

EU needs a massive reform .

@silphonym 9 дней назад

I don't think high salaries are an issue. However, they need to be paired with thorough, effective and well enforced regulations for the MEPs regarding transparency, lobbying and conflicts of interest.

@soundscape26 10 дней назад

Honestly doesn't seem like that much, it's in line with many other parliaments. There are other activities that pay much better without half the responsibilities. You made the title of this video as rage bait as possible.

@jpablo700 10 дней назад

Heck of a deal for Romanian politicians.

@MarcGonzalezPlanellas 9 дней назад

I happen to know people working in the EU and people working in the UN and related agencies. It is no different over there. All a massive hypocrisy of rules for thee but not for me

@adriankal 9 дней назад

It's not much. They work their entire life in poverty and then some of them get senior developer salary for several years. Corruption is not correlated with how much they earn, but with lack of prosecution and transparency. This is what we should fix. In comparison to how much we loose on this corruption, 2.2bn euro per year is nothing.

@dreamer5234 9 дней назад

When I'm thinking of a few idiot politicians voted to be in the parliament by my nation, this makes me angry.

@albevanhanoy 10 дней назад

I don't mind the amount so much as the lack of transparency and checks. How are we supposed to earn the people's trust like this? We need REFORM, and QUICKLY!

@davidharris5736 10 дней назад

There must be transparency and some sort of reform of the system to make the MEP's more accountable. This goes on in every Parliament in every country. In the UK I remember the duck house and heating for horse stables that were paid for and other abuses.' If by, 2 We need REFORM" You meant the REFORM party PLC, Didn't you see what Farrage was doing? On top he employed his then wife and you want more of REFORM PLC? Isn't he earning nearly 100 000 an MONTH and spending a few hours a week at his MP's job now now?

@albevanhanoy 10 дней назад

@@davidharris5736 ... I think you are confused. I meant we need to reform the parliament, not the "Reform UK" party. I hate Farage.

@albevanhanoy 9 дней назад

@@davidharris5736 ... I think you are confused. I meant we need to reform the parliament, not the "Reform UK" party. I hate Farage.

@jb.9526 9 дней назад

Compared to good job in the private sector in Northwest Europe or in the US, the salaries of EU members of parliament is really not outrageous. It's very reasonable for top European jobs.

@ralphbernhard1757 9 дней назад

And then there are the book deals, the "expenses", gifts, etc.

@PerkyBird 8 дней назад

Crazy how much of our tax money is going to this

@blackvikingeire 8 дней назад

Payment should be adjusted to cost of living of their original countries.

@whoisabdalle8295 8 дней назад

MEPs earning high salary isnt really problematic. If MEPs earned low salary more corruption would have occurred.

@HypaxBE 9 дней назад

Biggest problem for me is that they all get the same amount of money without evaluating whether they did their job well, booked good results, did what was expected of them. There has to be incentive to make them work for all of us.

@vidcollect74Ed 5 дней назад

...how about an additional institution to give them all those perks like: we take you there, we house you, we healthcare BUT you won't touch the money itself.

@vidcollect74Ed 5 дней назад

...then we should monitor that institution though...

@javizama2 9 дней назад

If there is a movement to restrict significantly all these perks and costs, count me in. I want polititians that are because they believe they can do a better Europe. But its impossible to believe in their idealism with that much money at their disposal

@Justin-un1ib 7 дней назад

This video just makes me want to become an EU MP 😅

@sPanKyZzZ1 6 дней назад

Do you think that serving in the highest parliament in Europe isn’t worth paying 160k a year to prevent widespread corruption? Personally I think EU does a good job standing up against big business and keeping a strong regulatory body. Also the salary is insignificant compared to salaries for CEO’s and chief executives everywhere that would die for less regulation to get more money out of the same people, us.

@claudiosolomon1324 10 дней назад

40M€ is nothing if you consider the amount of people in EU. It's something around 0,09€ per person in the EU per year. Most people don't notice if they lose that kind of money

@selfar9399 10 дней назад

1:22 I love how Diana Şoşacă is soyjaking

@yousefashmeh1468 10 дней назад

What's "soyjaking"? 😂

@garethbrown9191 9 дней назад

How much are the Commissioners paid? Are they actually required to do any work or once appointed, can they just stay for 5 years, collect a salary and do nothing?

@RafaelW8 7 дней назад

Jesus F Christ. I should've become an MEP

@jezusbloodie 6 дней назад

More investigative videos like this, pretty please! Indeed time for Reform! Vote VOLT!

@franclaudios8744 9 дней назад

Great information! Further videos on the topic would be appreciated!

@Boomkop3 10 дней назад

Why the non-european politician in the thumbnail tho?

@snowmanscz1011 10 дней назад

He is European, he was a member of the EP and he is directly mentioned in this video. I don’t see any issue

@robinmangala3536 10 дней назад

@@snowmanscz1011his sarcastic remark went over your head bro lol

@Joey-ct8bm 10 дней назад

Imagine having this system and still stealing EU money like Le Pen.

@davidharris5736 10 дней назад

Imagine being an MEP and going to only one meeting of the committee you are tasked with working for. Taking the salary and using it to pay for your political party's agenda in your home country, that calls for the destruction of the EU and employing your wife with EU cash for a little extra to boot, and having the gaul to take the evil EU's pension money.

@matejkleni6295 9 дней назад

you need to balance transaprency with bureaucracy (additional people need to be emoyed to process all forms and invoices and MEP additional MEP assistant to manage filing of these forms and invoices. I think trust until proven otherwise is more efficient option. Time for bureaucracy is also money

@suspiciousafternoon 9 дней назад

There are so many MEPs! It seems the best way to make money is to get elected, the amount of perks they get is insane. Taxes on basic salary don't affect them at all

@narcispana9361 4 дня назад

The managerial sistem will always be bloated and will always bring resources to itself just for the sake of growing... thia seems like a perfect example

@josephhesse2634 8 дней назад

Politician wages are way way too low. How can we trust that a guy with lesser than 1m per year manage trillions pf euro without corruption…. Need to pay them according to the importance weight of their output.

@rokasbarasa1 8 дней назад

They have all this money and yet still get caught taking more from Qatar

@infrared909 9 дней назад

A serious reform is needed. EU politcians need a proper income for the their work indeed. But al those "extras" need a serious reform.

@nurshatkalimullin5190 9 дней назад

Some benefits must be cut. Especially side jobs. And they must publish their expenses and earnings on yearly basis. But salary should be left as it is. People should be paid decently to avoid curruption.

@moweednarr 9 дней назад

Honest question: Is there anything we, as EU citizens, can do about this apart from voting minority parties? Is there a petition we could start? Or could we charge this somehow with a court?

@ayoCC 10 дней назад

I guess one question for myself is, what is a utopian system... Politicians work full time in politics? Their salaries are tied to the success of the EU (hdi+gdp)? They have to use a seperate account for business expenses? Banks doing the audit and banks getting fined if they don't send in a full audit report? (kinda like how USA does it to citizens to prevent tax fraud worldwide) Steep fines and possible ban from politics for unethical conduct, including retroactive fines? (you go into this job, you know what you signed up for, benefits are good, but responsibilities too)

@vidcollect74Ed 5 дней назад

...the same way they compel us to pay and to go to public health they should have those payments in species. Don't give them money for travel, give them the public service by an independent institution. The same with hotels...

@rubendepoortere 9 дней назад

I can't name any parliament where it's members aren't paid very good. So yes the pay is high, but this is normal, it is also needed to avoid corruption. But like other EU legislation it should be way more simple and transparent than it is now. Just give them a (very) good monthly pay that is both their salary and their budget to cover expenses like hotels etc... No shady tax cuts, and no additional money for 'showing up'. Keep record of who shows up and who doesn't, make it illegal to run for reelection when you have been absent too many times without medical or orther good reason.

@sciamachy9838 10 дней назад

Wooo… yeah but guess how much the top 720 managers in the UE are being payed? Spoiler allert: Much more. Also I’m not payed by the EU but by corporations and that number is ridiculously small for a 450 million people country/institution. Also take a look at the wages of other non peak jobs in the EU.

@ruzicas.5819 10 дней назад

Exactly. Many jobs with salaries of 2 000 euro.

@wurf5336 10 дней назад

time for reform jesus

@PedroMendes-ed2dl 7 дней назад

How is this possible?? No one is talking about this wtf... This is major! Please, put this everywhere and translate it to other languages.

@qwertyntarantino1937 9 дней назад

I also agree that salaries must be even hire but no, I do not have any trust to almost every politician in every country. Usually they have much lower moral standards than average person.

@Iseedeadmoney 6 дней назад

I agree that it should be more transparent, but other than that I find it completely normal that MEPs are well paid. There are a lot of things that should be better managed but the 40M going to MEPs is in the grand scheme of things not an issue. Comparing to US members of Congress, the amounts paid are lower.

@Kapanol97 9 дней назад

What a fkin joke

@TheGiacpuelles 8 дней назад

They are useless and now this ...great

@ldurena 9 дней назад

wow this is unbelievable!

@philoslother4602 9 дней назад

A plumber in Silicon valley can make more than that with some experience....😅😅😅

@HarJBeRw 5 дней назад

The salary amount seems right to me, the only problem is regulating all those other issues you mentionned

@Aerostarm 9 дней назад

Hang on. They should get paid a lot, it disincentivises corruption and encourages skilled people who would otherwise be working in the private sector.

@JaegerDreadful 9 дней назад

Look, someone gets how it works! Management at random multi-million dollar companies makes this much or more. They expect people to work for minimum wage or something?

@Jonas-Seiler 9 дней назад

Doesn’t seem to be working now does it

@teemumiettinen7250 9 дней назад

No, politician should be actually be paid minimum wage. They are working for the betterment of the country, not for betterment of the fatness of their wallet.

@imcbocian 10 дней назад

To be honest. Those aren't big money. IMHO they are not enough. Check up how much are paid chairman's and others corporate figures. And those corporations deals with MUCH smaller budgets. if you want a more competent leader than you'll find in your average corporation, you should be able to pay them well enough. Otherwise, you'll only attract loudmouths or schemers looking for a side hustle.

@_o..o_1871 10 дней назад

Huh? What are you talking about? Many EU countries still have minimum salaries of 450-800€. Wake up!

@zorozyx1347 10 дней назад

@@_o..o_1871 He won't wake up.

@soundscape26 10 дней назад

I share your opinion. He tried to come up with the most rage bait title possible.