Post by Jaga on May 21, 2009 9:08:30 GMT -7
Who were the laziest members of the European Parliament? A tabloid investigation reveals all...
Top of Fakt’s list of euro-idlers is racing driver Krzysztof Holowczyc. The European People's Party's MEP skipped 63 out of 96 session days (65 percent) last year. As a result he lost his MEP allowance but still receives salary.
Holowczyc became a member of the European Parliament in December 2007, after Barbara Kudrycka had given up her seat. Since then he has received a 180,000 zlotys (41,000 euros) salary.
The second laziest Polish MEP is Adam Bielan from the Union for a Europe of the Nations. Recently Bielan boasted that he is the most active Polish MEP because he took the floor in the European Parliament over 300 times.
But it turns out that almost 200 of his speeches were limited to simple expressions like: “I open the debate”, “I close the debate” or “Could you, please, turn the heating on?” Bielan missed 63 out of 298 session days (21 percent). He explained his absence by saying that he needs to travel excessively, representing parliament outside Brussels.
Other work-shy Polish MEPs include Marek Siwiec, Pawel Piskorski and Janusz Lewandowski.
www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/news/artykul108664_the_polish_euro_idlers.html
Top of Fakt’s list of euro-idlers is racing driver Krzysztof Holowczyc. The European People's Party's MEP skipped 63 out of 96 session days (65 percent) last year. As a result he lost his MEP allowance but still receives salary.
Holowczyc became a member of the European Parliament in December 2007, after Barbara Kudrycka had given up her seat. Since then he has received a 180,000 zlotys (41,000 euros) salary.
The second laziest Polish MEP is Adam Bielan from the Union for a Europe of the Nations. Recently Bielan boasted that he is the most active Polish MEP because he took the floor in the European Parliament over 300 times.
But it turns out that almost 200 of his speeches were limited to simple expressions like: “I open the debate”, “I close the debate” or “Could you, please, turn the heating on?” Bielan missed 63 out of 298 session days (21 percent). He explained his absence by saying that he needs to travel excessively, representing parliament outside Brussels.
Other work-shy Polish MEPs include Marek Siwiec, Pawel Piskorski and Janusz Lewandowski.
www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/news/artykul108664_the_polish_euro_idlers.html
