MPs cost thousands of Euro

The IPP (Public Policy Institute) released yesterday a study on the monthly expenses for the activities of Romanian senators and deputies.
One MP may cost us up to 7,425 Euro a month. Senators and deputies on hotel accommodation spend three times more than their colleagues in other dwelling places. In 2006 Romanian deputies spent on trips in the country a quarter more than in 2005.
These are some of the research conclusions unveiled yesterday, after an analysis of MP activity expenses in January 2005-October 2006.
In the study there is emphasized: "The IPP does not want to insinuate that such funds are necessarily too large, but to outline the need for total transparency on such expenses, which the parliamentarians should be the first to stimulate". (...)

Roxana Andronic
Ziua Joi 02 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english