Has limousines around the clock: Sovset into luxury

If mps do not bother to go, take the train in first class or pay themselves from it, the european parliament has, of course, also made a limousine service is available.

Thus has purchased 128 luxury cars, that counts everything from Volvo over the Mercedes to the BMW.

The Extra Leaf tell on Wednesday.

the european Parliament will provide to Ekstra Bladet, that the fleet can be freely used by the parliamentarians in a radius of 20 kilometres around the parliament, respectively, in Strasbourg and Brussels.

the Price of the cars, per year is 7.1 million dollars in leasing. In addition, 16 million dollars in wages to the drivers, inform the european parliament.

According to Rina Ronja Kari, member of the EUROPEAN parliament, it's all too much:

- It is fundamentally a plush system, where mps are sovset into luxury. It is too much, and for taxpayers ' money, and I think, frankly, that some of my colleagues have forgotten. I really think that we deserve it, " she says.

According to Wouter Wolfs, researcher in the EU administration, it is, however, quite naturally, that made cars available.

- It can well be defended, because they have busy calendars, and they don't live in Brussels or Strasbourg. Maybe 128 cars in the top to 750 mps, but the parliament must take a position out from how much they are being used. In general, the debate has been whether it would be cheaper to outsource, but it raises the question of security, and then there is the question of wages to the drivers, he says.

According to parliament, it is possible to run with the cars between Strasbourg and Brussels, when the european parliament moved. However, according to the parliamentarian, Rina Ronja Kari, it has been indicated that the cars running empty back and forth, because the parliamentarians on the fly.