Members of the European Parliament from the Brexit Party have the highest combined outside earnings compared to other delegations, according to data on financial declarations analysed by the NGO Transparency International.
According to its EU Integrity Watch report, Brexit Party MEPs collectively earned between €2,064,468 and €4,683,916 on top of their parliamentary salaries, well above the totals for other parliamentary groups.
With 29 MEPs, the Brexit Party is one of the largest party delegations in the European assembly, but their total outside income is the highest by far. To compare, the far-right Italian League’s 28 MEPs declared combined earnings between €369,192 and €1,067,952 — less than a quarter of the Brexit Party delegation’s earnings.
The highest-earning MEP, according to Transparency International’s analysis of financial filings, is the Brexit Party’s Ben Habib, who makes €80,000 monthly on top of his salary of €8,757 as a member of the legislature.
The second highest-earning member of the Parliament is former Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, a member of the center-right European People’s Party, who makes between €49,004 and €67,000 per month in addition to his MEP salary.
Via Politico
