
EU parliament proposes to halve payouts from MEP pension fund
The European parliament is proposing to halve payouts from a gold-plated pension scheme utilized by nearly 1,000 former and present members, together with Brexiter Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen, the French far-right chief.Senior MEPs on Monday opted to cut back a €310mn deficit by rising the retirement age from 65 to 67 and ending the automated uprating of advantages with inflation, which might reduce nominal pensions by half, stated parliamentary authorities.The measures — which nonetheless must be adopted formally — ought to shrink the deficit to €86mn.The particular voluntary scheme for European parliamentarians supplies beneficiaries with a pension pot value about €375,000 per particular person on common. Members reminiscent of Farage, UK Northern Eire secretary Chris Heaton...