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More than half of the 751 MEPs in the new European Parliament have outside activities that could influence their work (Photo: European Parliament)

MEPs earn millions on the side

Renato Soru is a wealthy man. In 2000 he made it onto the Forbes list of world billionaires, and a year later the US magazine ran a profile on him and his Milan-based Internet company Tiscali, which was "snatching up competitors in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Czech Republic."

Fast-forward to 2014. Soru is still CEO of Tiscali, earning over €10,000 a month, according to his declaration of financial interests filed as a Socialist MEP.

He is not alone in l...

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More than half of the 751 MEPs in the new European Parliament have outside activities that could influence their work (Photo: European Parliament)

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