MPs slash MEP salaries

  • 2009-03-19
  • From wire reports
RIGA - The Latvian parliament has adopted a billproviding for reduction of wages of Latvia's members of the EuropeanParliament.

The amendments prepared by the parliament's legal committee providefor a reduction of financing by 15 percent.

"We are aware that the savings will be very small, but it is a principle ofsolidarity," said legal committee's chairman Vineta Muizniece.

In late February the parliament passed similar amendments providing for a reduction of Latvian lawmakers' wages by 15 percent from March 1.