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Published on 22/2/2012Offers to free luxury travels, gala dinners, test drives and spooky hikes - almost daily, lobbyists are attempting to seduce the independent MEP H.P. Martin. Within a week, the gift invitations exceeded the amount of 10.000 Euro. Simultaneously, aimed pressure is made to support or submit specific amendments to EU-directives. Since April 2011, all lobby contacts are openly published and consistently updated on this webpage.
More ...H.P. Martin: “The Great EU-Nuclear Scam”
Published on 18/3/2011EU worse equipped for nuclear power plant (NPP) incident than Japan / EU security standards of an unacceptable minimum and only implemented in three EU member states / Systematic concealed information / EU nuclear funding hidden in EU budget and larger than assumed / Scandalous influence of nuclear industry lobbyists / Biased EU civil servants / NPP stress tests accompanied by bluff hazard / 50 critical parliamentary questions to the EU-Commission
More ...H.P. Martin in the "International Herald Tribune"
EU-Parliamentarians want to work even less
Published on 24/1/2011H.P. Martin on British TV-"Channel 4"
Published on 15/11/2010Monday (15.11.2010) H.P. Martin presented new EU-scandals on the biggest British private TV-channel "Channel 4" in the investigative series "Dispatches".
More ...Down Under Just the Place For A Junket?
Published on 9/2/2009
A spat has broken out in the European Parliament over free-loading; not unusual there, but this time it’s about alleged junkets to Australia.
More ...MEP criticises EU parliamentary delegations
Published on 13/1/2009
Former investigative journalist Hans-Peter Martin has described a number of parliament’s overseas delegations as a "waste of time and money".
More ...Deputy lambasts 47-million-euro holiday splash for EU employees
Published on 17/12/2008
Brussels - The European Union's institutions in Brussels have been accused of squandering millions of euros of European taxpayers' money by paying for their employees' Christmas travel expenses at a time of economic crisis. Hans-Peter Martin, an independent member of the European Parliament from Austria, wrote to the press Wednesday denouncing this "shocking privilege."
More ...Anger over EU's travelling circus
Published on 23/9/2008
PARIS - Once it was lauded as a pilgrimage of unity. Now it is dismissed as a multimillion-euro joke, and a campaign is building for it to end.
More ...Parliament saved €3 million by meeting in Brussels
Published on 17/9/2008
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has directly saved between €3 and 4 million by temporarily holding two plenary sessions in Brussels, after the ceiling in Strasbourg collapsed over summer.
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