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More than one in four EU lawmakers receives extra income, and lawmakers with the highest additional income earn more than they do from their parliamentary work, a new report said. On Monday, the anti-corruption organization Transparency International (TI) published findings that stated 16 of the 20 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) with the highest additional income are politically right-wing or tend to be right of centre. The European Parliament has a total of 705 lawmakers. According to the data, all MEPS earn more than €8.7 million ($9.4 million) per year from secondary employment. …

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