{"id":233605,"date":"2025-07-03T02:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233605\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:57:14","slug":"eu-parliaments-top-brass-get-fat-pay-raises-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233605\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament\u2019s top brass get fat pay raises \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Schirdewan, co-chair of The Left political group, balked at the pay increases, telling POLITICO: \u201cWhile people all across the EU suffer from the effects of the weather and our elders are fighting for survival, the Parliament seems to be serving itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cNo one can explain that anymore, and it leaves me speechless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The salary increases could cost the European Parliament\u2019s human resources department up to \u20ac324,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The hikes come following a raft of May promotions from AD15 to AD16, the highest grade in the EU civil servant hierarchy.\u00a0When asked by POLITICO, a spokesperson for the Parliament said all recipients of the pay raise have at least three years of seniority in their previous pay brackets, while the minimum requirement for a promotion is two years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/13132834-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6852834\"  \/>The salary increases could cost the European Parliament\u2019s human resources department up to \u20ac324,000 a year. | Ronald Wittek\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>Seven out of 16 directors-general, who lead the administration\u2019s departments, along with Chiochetti have been promoted as of June 1, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/RegData\/organes\/bureau\/proces_verbal\/2025\/05-05\/BUR_PV(2025)05-05_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minutes<\/a> of a May meeting of the Parliament\u2019s vice-presidents.<\/p>\n<p>The directors-general who got pay raises are: Christian Mangold, in charge of communications; Ellen Robson, in charge of human resources; Juan Carlos Jim\u00e9nez Mar\u00edn, in charge of interpretation logistics; Lorenzo Mannelli, in charge of IT and cybersecurity; Guy Mols, in charge of security and safety; Monika Strasser, in charge of budgetary policy; and Michael Speiser, in charge of economic and industrial policies.<\/p>\n<p>As of Nov. 1, 2025, Anders Rasmussen, deputy secretary general in charge of legislative coordination and the research services, will be promoted to AD16, as will Sannaleena Lepola-Honig, director-general in charge of parliamentary partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Schirdewan, co-chair of The Left political group, balked at the pay increases, telling POLITICO: \u201cWhile people all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[331,2001,3457,2000,299,5187,23762,91565,617,2343,5549,811,1199,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-233605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-communications","10":"tag-cybersecurity","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-logistics","15":"tag-martin-schirdewan","16":"tag-pensions","17":"tag-research","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-security","20":"tag-services","21":"tag-tax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114787060514467167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}