This may include advertisements from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. He said that the European Union is urgently needed to lead by example, especially when the political leadership is demanding cutbacks and understanding from the citizens. It shows how far Europe has removed itself from the people. The Ifo institute has slashed Germany's 2022 growth forecast, causing the EU's largest economy to shrink by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of the year and to stagnate in the first three months of next year due to supply bottlenecks and a surge in Covid infections. According to Bild, the lowest basic salary of an EU official will increase by €57 49 to €3,057 2,604 while the highest basic salary will get a €400 341 boost to €21,163 18,000 per month. Allowances would add on to €500 426 more, according to Bild.
EU commissioners will see their basic pay rise from €444 378 to €23,809 20,286 while Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will pocket as much as €545 464 more, bringing hers to €29,205 24,890, which will lead to an increase of €34,000 28,978 after allowances are added. The EU has an income tax between 8 percent and 45 percent of MEP salaries, which will increase by €171 146 to €9,166 7,813. The EU pay award is 8 percent for annual salaries below €60,000 51,000, compared to Germany, where politicians have had to tighten purse strings this year with members of the Bundestag seeing their pay fall for the first time in July due to the cost of the coronaviruses.
They have seen a 0.7 percent fall to €10,012 8,534 Across the UK civil service, 55 percent of staff are less than 30,000 with almost one in 10 civil servants 9 percent less than 20,000, according to the Institute for Government. There are less than 40,00 civil servants who earn more than 40,000 a year, with less than 90,000 civil servants earning more than 40,000 a year. This is less than half of the number of people earning between 20,000 and 30,000. The EU's biggest economy is battered by rising inflation REVEALED Fishing row is about to erupt in the EU LATEST 6 EU countries at risk from Russian invasion REPORT A British MP's basic annual salary is 81,932, as of April 2020, but Parliamentarians also receive expenses to cover the costs of having somewhere to live in London. The list of more than 200 MPs with extra salaries is dominated by Tory politicians. Geoffrey Cox, who was the attorney general during the height of the Brexit negotiations, has accumulated 970,000 income for 705 hours of legal services in the last year.